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Chester Irving Sayers (August 17, 1899 – June 19, 1985) was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1941 to 1971 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government. ==Political career== Sayers ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature as the Social Credit candidate in the electoral district of Camrose in a by-election held on February 6, 1941. He would defeated Co-operative Commonwealth leader Chester Ronning in a hotly contested straight fight to hold the seat for his party.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Elections Alberta )〕 He would run for a second term in the 1944 Alberta general election. He faced former MLA William Chant and defeated him and another candidate with a large majority.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Camrose results 1944 )〕 Sayers ran for a third term in office in the 1948 general election. He won decisively increasing his popular vote.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Camrose results 1948 )〕 Sayers ran for a fourth term in the 1952 general election. He lost a little ground in his popular vote, but still took the district with a comfortable plurality.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Camrose results 1952 )〕 The 1955 general election would see Sayers nearly get defeated. He faced a strong challenge from Liberal candidate Ed Schnell whom he defeated on the third vote count to hold the district.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Camrose results 1955 )〕 Sayers ran for his sixth term in the 1959 Alberta general election. He improved his popularity winning his largest popular vote to date. The opposition vote among the three other candidates shifted and collapsed in support giving Sayers a wide margin of victory.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Camrose results 1959 )〕 The 1963 general election would see Sayers win the largest popular vote of his career. He would defeat three other candidates to win his seventh term in office.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Camrose results 1963 )〕 He ran for his final term in the 1967 general election. He faced a hotly contested race amongst three other candidates. The opposition vote was divided and Sayers was returned with a large plurality.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Camrose results 1967 )〕 Sayers retired from the Alberta Legislature at dissolution in 1971. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chester Sayers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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