Walter Richard Szwender is a former provincial level politician and teacher from Alberta, Canada.
[2] He ran for a second term in office in the 1986 Alberta general election but was defeated in a closely contested race by the New Democrat candidate, Tom Sigurdson.
[3] Szwender faced Sigurdson again three years later in the 1989 election in an attempt to retake Edmonton-Belmont and he was once again defeated, this time by a larger margin.
[4] He attempted another come back to the Alberta Legislature by running in the 2004 provincial election in Edmonton Decore as a last-minute replacement after it was revealed that the nominated candidate, Ray Haja,r was a convicted criminal, and had years of unpaid alimony.
Both Masyk and Swender were defeated by the Liberal candidate, Bill Bonko.