Ken Allred

Education

Allred is a land surveyor by profession, and graduated from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in 1961.

Career

He is also a former municipal councillor in Saint Albert, Alberta and former candidate for the Canadian House of Commons. He was commissioned as an Alberta Land Surveyor in 1965 and as a Canada Lands Surveyor in 1968. He has held numerous positions with the Alberta Land Surveyors Association, the Canadian Council of Land Surveyors, and the International Federation of Surveyors, including serving as the Executive Director of the ALSA from 1977 until 1991.

He was an adjunct professor at the University of Alberta from 1984 to 1992.

Allred was first elected to Saint Albert City Council in 1980, and was re-elected in 1983. He finished fourth as incumbent Progressive Conservative Walter van de Walle was re-elected.

Allred was also President of the Reform Party constituency association from 1987 to 1988, and later a director of the Canadian Alliance constituency association from 2001 until 2003. Provincially, Allred is a supporter of the Progressive Conservative Party, and served as a director of its Saint Albert constituency association from 1986 to 1988 and as its President from 2000 until 2003.

In June 2007, Allred announced his intention to seek the Progressive Conservative nomination in the riding, challenging incumbent mayor Paul Chalifoux and local seniors activist Frances Badrock.

He defeated Flaherty by nearly three thousand votes to take office as Modern Language Association.

Achievements

• He won a first ballot victory by a "significant margin" and became the party"s choice to challenge incumbent Liberal Modern Language Association Jack Flaherty in the 2008 election.

Politics

He did not seek re-election in 1986, but returned to city council in 1989 and served an additional three terms, before retiring from municipal politics in 1998. Federally, Allred was a charter member of the Reform Party of Canada in 1987, and was that party"s candidate in the 1988 federal election for the riding of Saint Albert.