Lavern Ahlstrom

Lavern Ahlstrom is an Alberta politician.

He is leader of the Alberta Social Credit Party. 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 MLA, Alf Hooke, for 36 years from 1935 to 1971.