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Template:1944 Alberta general election/Lethbridge

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1944 Alberta general election: Lethbridge
Party Candidate Votes
1st count
% Votes
final count
±%
Social Credit John C. Landeryou 2,367 37.59% 2,692 -1.40%
Independent David Horton Elton 2,247 35.68% 2,388
Co-operative Commonwealth B. F. Tanner 1,464 23.25%
Labor–Progressive Eugene Scully 219 3.48%
Total 6,297
Rejected, spoiled and declined 42
Eligible electors / turnout 9,190 68.98% -14.43%
Social Credit gain from Independent Movement Swing -10.05%
Source(s)
Source: "Lethbridge Official Results 1944 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.