Peter Sekulic (born 1962) is a Canadian former politician in the province of

Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...

. Sekulic was born in Croatia in 1962 and immigrated with his parents and a sibling to Canada in 1967. He was elected to the

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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 per ...

. Peter defeated former Edmonton Belmont incumbent

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Tom Sigurdson Thomas Sigurdson (born March 7, 1957) is a former Canadian provincial level politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 1993. He is a labour activist and organizer for the New Democratic Party in British ...

to pick up the new district of

Edmonton Manning Edmonton Manning is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2015. Edmonton Manning was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally ...

for the

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. Sekulic served a single term in the legislature, he was the Deputy Native Affairs Critic for the Liberal opposition. Sekulic currently works for Strategic Relations Inc. with former MLA

Jon Havelock Jonathan Niles Havelock was a Cabinet Minister from Alberta, Canada. Jon Havelock was elected as the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta member for Calgary Shaw in the 1993 Alberta general election after the former member of the ri ...

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Strategic Relations Inc.
Living people Alberta Liberal Party MLAs Canadian people of Croatian descent 1962 births {{Alberta-politician-stub