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Template:1948 Alberta general election/Vermilion

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1948 Alberta general election: Vermilion
Party Candidate Votes
1st count
% Votes
final count
±%
Social Credit William R. Cornish 1,999 46.10% 2,196 -6.84%
Liberal William H. Chorney 1,179 27.19% 1,323
Co-operative Commonwealth Roy William Hay 1,158 26.71% 3.27%
Total 4,336
Rejected, spoiled and declined 245
Eligible electors / turnout 6,372 71.89% 3.70%
Social Credit hold Swing -5.20%
Source(s)
Source: "Vermilion 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.