Template:1944 Alberta general election/Willingdon

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1944 Alberta general election: Willingdon
Party Candidate Votes
1st count
% Votes
final count
±%
Social Credit William Tomyn 1,771 44.30% 1,844 -16.82%
Co-operative Commonwealth L. L. Kostash 1,328 33.22% 1,448 7.82%
Labor–Progressive William A. Yusep 899 22.49%
Total 3,998
Rejected, spoiled and declined N/A
Eligible electors / turnout 5,867 68.14% 3.72%
Social Credit hold Swing -12.32%
Source(s)
Source: "Willingdon 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.