Kurt Gesell Explained

Kurt Gesell
Birth Date:8 July 1941[1]
Birth Place:Germany
Office:MLA for Clover Bar
Term Start:1989
Term End:1993
Predecessor:Walt Buck
Successor:District Abolished
Party:Progressive Conservative
Independent

Kurt Gesell (born July 8, 1941) is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1989 to 1993.

Political career

Gesell ran as a candidate for the Progressive Conservatives in the 1989 Alberta general election. He won the electoral district of Clover Bar holding it for the Progressive Conservatives in a hotly contested three-way race that saw all three candidates finish within 200 votes of each other.[2] During his only term in office, Gessell left the Progressive Conservative caucus and sat as an independent and broke party lines to vote against Bill 66 Members of the Legislative Assembly Pension Plan Amendment Act, 1993. He also left the caucus for the lack of free votes and free speech in the legislature.[3]

Clover Bar electoral district was abolished due to redistribution in 1993, Gesell ran for a second term in office as an independent candidate in the 1993 Alberta general election in the new electoral district of Clover Bar-Fort Saskatchewan. He was defeated by Liberal candidate Muriel Abdurahman.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: A Guide to Alberta's 19th Legislature . Alberta Teachers' Association. January 1980.
  2. Web site: Clover Bar results 1989. Alberta Heritage Community Foundation . October 4, 2009.
  3. https://www.assembly.ab.ca/isys/LADDAR_files/docs/hansards/han/legislature_22/session_4/19930507_1000_01_han.wpd. May 7, 1993. Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
  4. Web site: Clover Bar-Fort Saskatchewan results 1993. Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. 2008-04-18.