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♂ Chester Irving Sayers
aliasChester Sayers
Record
55302 · 3132

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 8 0 8
Birth 17 August 1899 → 124 years + 9 months ago
Lived 85 years + 10 months
First mandate 6 March 1941 → 83 years + 2 months ago
↳ at age 41 years + 6 months
Death 19 June 1985 → 38 years + 10 months ago
Exit → Death 13 years + 9 months after 29 August 1971
Special notes
None
 
Chester Irving Sayers (1899–1985)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Alberta — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Alberta 30 5 16 Z

Electoral history

Races 8  
Path points 9  
2 documented challengers
⊖ William Chant  m 
 		 ⊖ Chester Ronning  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 4,284 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
9		 Alberta
6 March 1941
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27892(F) — 29 Oct 2022 13:58 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
41
SC
 1/2 2,419 56.47% +554 Loser:
CCF
 1,865 43.53% Chester A. Ronning

Service: 3 years 5 months 1 day (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,941 Votes: 5,002 Participation: 72.06% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
10		 Alberta
8 August 1944
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27903(F) — 6 Mar 2022 16:52 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
44
SC
 1/3 2,763 55.53% +1,173 Loser:
CCF
 1,590 31.95% Charles E. Boulter

Service: 4 years 8 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 7,858 Votes: 5,596 Participation: 71.21% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
11		 Alberta
17 August 1948
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27957(F) — 6 Mar 2022 20:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
49
SC
 1/3 3,041 56.75% +1,726 Loser:
CCF
 1,315 24.54% Charles E. Boulter

Service: 3 years 11 months 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 8,229 Votes: 5,360 Participation: 65.14% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
12		 Alberta
5 August 1952
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28008(F) — 7 Mar 2022 10:35 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
52
SC
 1/3 2,919 57.62% +1,787 Loser:
CCF
 1,132 22.35% Archie Olstad

Service: 2 years 10 months 23 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 8,786 Votes: 6,349 Participation: 72.26% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
13		 Alberta
29 June 1955
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28060(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
55
SC
 1/4 2,899 47.81% +685 Loser:
LIB
 2,214 36.51% Ed Schnell

Service: 3 years 11 months 19 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 8,479 Votes: 6,079 Participation: 71.69% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
14		 Alberta
18 June 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28113(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
59
SC
 1/4 3,229 53.22% +1,591 Loser:
PC
 1,638 27.00% John E. Stuart

Service: 3 years 11 months 29 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 9,259 Votes: 6,058 Participation: 65.43% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
15		 Alberta
17 June 1963
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28189(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
63
SC
 1/4 3,427 56.66% +1,908 Loser:
PC
 1,519 25.12% Ernest Moore

Service: 3 years 11 months 5 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 9,537 Votes: 6,968 Participation: 73.06% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
16		 Alberta
23 May 1967
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 13125(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
67
SC
 1/4 3,083 44.49% +1,347 Loser:
PC
 1,736 25.05% Emmett G. Mohler

Service: 4 years 3 months 6 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 12,631 Votes: 9,549 Participation: 75.60% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
17		 Alberta
30 August 1971
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 13050(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
72		 Successor:
PC
 4,552 47.89% Gordon E. Stromberg

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Chester I. Sayers		  4 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Chester Sayers		  4 May 2024

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