Tom Sigurdson

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Thomas "Tom" Sigurdson is a former Canadian provincial level politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 1993. He currently works as a labour activist and organizer for the New Democratic Party in British Columbia.Sigurdson ran as a candidate for the first time in the 1940 Alberta general election as an independent candidate in the electoral district of Rocky Mountain House. He was defeated by Social Credit incumbent Alfred Hooke.He would run again 46 years later in the 1986 Alberta general election as a NDP candidate in the electoral district of Edmonton-Belmont. He defeated incumbent Progressive Conservative MLA Walter Szwender by a comfortable plurality. Swender and Sigurdson would face each other again in the 1989 Alberta general election, Sigurdson improved his popular vote total winning a decisive majority.