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Template:1944 Alberta general election/Banff-Cochrane

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1944 Alberta general election: Banff-Cochrane
Party Candidate Votes
1st count
% Votes
final count
±%
Social Credit Arthur H. Wray 1,568 38.51% 1,805 -0.43%
Independent Frank Laut 1,602 39.34% 1,757 -21.72%
Co-operative Commonwealth D. MacGregor 902 22.15%
Total 4,072
Rejected, spoiled and declined 118
Eligible electors / turnout 5,698 73.53% -6.86%
Social Credit gain from Independent Swing -11.48%
Source(s)
Source: "Banff-Cochrane 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.