Template:1940 Alberta general election/Wainwright
| 1940 Alberta general election: Wainwright | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count |
% | Votes final count |
±% | |||
| Social Credit | William Masson | 2,296 | 43.23% | 2,583 | -11.65% | |||
| Independent | N. P. Strachan | 1,611 | 30.33% | 2,169 | – | |||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Kenneth S. Tory | 1,039 | 19.56% | – | – | |||
| Independent Progressive | Albert Lester Blue | 365 | 6.87% | – | – | |||
| Total | 5,311 | – | – | – | ||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 189 | – | – | – | ||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 7,201 | 76.38% | -7.23% | – | ||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | -10.01% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Wainwright 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. | ||||||||