Lavern Ahlstrom

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Lavern Ahlstrom is a politician in Alberta, Canada.

He is leader of the Alberta Social Credit Party, which governed Alberta from 1935 to 1971, but is now a fringe party that holds no seats in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He assumed the party's leadership in February 2001, and led the party the November 2004 provincial election.

Lavern first became involved with Social Credit in the 1970s, and has run for the party in his home riding of Rocky Mountain House, the riding formerly represented by the longest-serving Socred Member of the Legislative Assembly, Alf Hooke, for 36 years from 1935 to 1971. In the last two provincial elections he has polled well in this riding, tying for second place in the 2004 polls.