Template:1940 Alberta general election/Pincher Creek-Crowsnest
| 1940 Alberta general election: Pincher Creek-Crowsnest | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count |
% | Votes final count |
±% | |||
| Social Credit | Ernest O. Duke | 2,356 | 42.59% | 2,443 | – | |||
| Independent | C.J. Tompkins | 2,129 | 38.49% | 2,210 | – | |||
| Dominion Labor | Enoch Williams | 1,047 | 18.93% | – | – | |||
| Total | 5,532 | – | – | – | ||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 195 | – | – | – | ||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 6,650 | 86.12% | – | – | ||||
| Social Credit pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Pincher Creek-Crowsnest Official Results 1940 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Instant-runoff voting requires a candidate to receive a plurality (greater than 50%) of the votes. As no candidate received a plurality of votes, the bottom candidate was eliminated and their 2nd place votes were applied to both other candidates until one received a plurality. | ||||||||