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Template:1940 Alberta general election/Pembina

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1940 Alberta general election: Pembina
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
First count
Independent George MacLachlan 1,719 42.43%
Social Credit Harry Knowlton Brown 1,589 39.22% -17.84%
Co-operative Commonwealth W. Mentz 743 18.34%
Total 4,051
Ballot transfer results
Independent George MacLachlan 1,980 52.13%
Social Credit Harry Knowlton Brown 1,818 47.87%
Total 3,798
Rejected, spoiled and declined 244
Eligible electors / turnout 7,152 60.05% -20.03%
Independent gain from Social Credit Swing -2.00%
Source(s)
Source: "Pembina 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.