Template:1944 Alberta general election/Pincher Creek-Crowsnest
| 1944 Alberta general election: Pincher Creek-Crowsnest | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count |
% | Votes final count |
±% | |||
| Social Credit | Ernest O. Duke | 2,109 | 43.40% | 2,228 | 0.82% | |||
| Labour United | Enoch Williams | 1,788 | 36.80% | 1,870 | – | |||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | W.H. Irwin | 962 | 19.80% | – | – | |||
| Total | 4,859 | – | – | – | ||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 50 | – | – | – | ||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 6,703 | 73.24% | -12.88% | – | ||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | 1.25% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Pincher Creek-Crowsnest 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. | ||||||||