Lavern Ahlstrom

For other uses, see Ahlstrom (disambiguation).

Lavern Ahlstrom is a retired provincial level politician and former leader of the Alberta Social Credit Party.

Political career

Ahlstrom first became involved with Social Credit in the 1970s. He has been a perennial candidate for the party with some moderately successful showings during his career. Ahlstrom first ran for office in electoral district of Rocky Mountain House in the 1979 Alberta general election finishing second to Progressive Conservative Jack Campbell.

He ran for a second time in the 1986 Alberta general election, this time for the Representative Party of Alberta finishing third. In that election he was once again defeated by Campbell. He would run again in the 1993 Alberta general election once again for Social Credit finishing a strong second to Progressive Conservative Ty Lund.^[1]

In the 1997 Alberta general election he would go against Lund for a second time coming up with his best electoral result ever, finishing a close second again. He would attempt another run against Lund in the 2001 Alberta general election this time being defeated finishing second in a landslide.^[2] He would run for the last time in the 2004 Alberta general election this time as party leader finishing in a second place tie.

Leader of Social Credit

Ahlstrom was elected leader of Social Credit after James Alberts departed in 2001 after a poor showing in the 2001 Alberta general election. Ahlstrom's leadership of the Alberta Social Credit Party has been notable for the party re-embracing elements of Social Credit economic and monetary theory. Electoral wise he led the party to a better showing running 43 candidates in the 2004 Alberta general election earning 1.2% of the popular vote. The last election contested under his leadership was the Drumheller-Stettler by election held in June 2007. Social Credit finished a very strong third vastly improving their showing in the district over 2004.

He resigned as leader and was replaced by Len Skowronski in November 2007.

References

↑ "Rocky Mountain House history 1940 to 1997". Alberta Heritage Foundation. Retrieved 2008-01-25.
↑ "Rocky Mountain House history 2001". Alberta Heritage Foundation. Retrieved 2008-01-25.

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Party political offices
Preceded by James Albers	Social Credit Party of Alberta Leader 2001–2007	Succeeded by Len Skowronski

Leaders of the Alberta Social Credit Party

Aberhart Manning Strom Schmidt Clark Sykes Hattersley Yuill Neilson Alford Thorsteinson Albers Ahlstrom Skowronski

Social Credit

Movements

Canada	Abolitionist Party of Canada British Columbia Social Credit Party Canada Party Christian Credit Party Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform Les Démocrates Manitoba Social Credit Party New Democracy Pauper Party of Ontario Parti crédit social uni Pilgrims of Saint Michael Ralliement créditiste Ralliement créditiste du Québec Social Credit Board Alberta Social Credit Party Social Credit Party of Canada Social Credit Party of New Brunswick Social Credit Party of Ontario Social Credit Party of Saskatchewan

Oceania	Australian League of Rights Douglas Credit Party New Zealand Democratic Party for Social Credit Social Credit Party Solomon Islands Social Credit Party

United Kingdom	British People's Party Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

People

History

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Politics

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