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Template:1948 Alberta general election/Banff-Cochrane

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1948 Alberta general election: Banff-Cochrane
Party Candidate Votes
1st count
% Votes
final count
±%
Independent Social Credit Arthur H. Wray 1,658 41.57% 1,964
Independent Movement Frank Laut 1,246 31.24% 1,465
Social Credit William Robert King 1,084 27.18% -11.33%
Total 3,988
Rejected, spoiled and declined 291
Eligible electors / turnout 7,356 58.17% -15.36%
Independent Social Credit gain from Social Credit Swing 5.58%
Source(s)
Source: "Banff-Cochrane Official Results 1948 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.