Kurt Gesell (born July 8, 1941) is a former provincial level politician from

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, Canada. He served as a member of the

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from 1989 to 1993.

Political career

Gesell ran as a candidate for the Progressive Conservatives in the

1989 Alberta general election The 1989 Alberta general election was held on March 20, 1989, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Many political observers were surprised by the early election call as less than three years had passed since the previous el ...

. 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. 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. 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 The 1993 Alberta general election was held on June 15, 1993, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. The Conservative government was re-elected, taking 51 seats out of 83 (61 percent of the seats) but only having support of 45 pe ...

in the new electoral district of Clover Bar-Fort Saskatchewan. He was defeated by Liberal candidate

Muriel Abdurahman Muriel Ross Abdurahman (April 29, 1938 – December 22, 2013) was a politician from Alberta, Canada. She served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 to 1997. Political career Fort Saskatchewan Town Council Abdurahman was elected to ...

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Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing
Living people Independent Alberta MLAs Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs German emigrants to Canada 1941 births 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta {{Alberta-MLA-stub