Template:1935 Alberta general election/Sturgeon
| 1935 Alberta general election: Sturgeon | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| First count | ||||||||
| Social Credit | James Popil | 2,465 | 42.68% | – | ||||
| Liberal | G. J. Hope | 1,533 | 26.54% | -4.10% | ||||
| United Farmers | John Russell Love | 857 | 14.84% | -54.52% | ||||
| United Front | L. Robbins | 560 | 9.70% | – | ||||
| Conservative | G. G. Fowler | 361 | 6.25% | – | ||||
| Total | 5,776 | – | – | |||||
| Ballot transfer results | ||||||||
| Social Credit | James Popil | 2,729 | 57.07% | – | ||||
| Liberal | G. J. Hope | 2,053 | 42.93% | – | ||||
| No second choice | 994 | – | – | |||||
| Total | 4,782 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 222 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 7,425 | 80.78% | 17.79% | |||||
| Social Credit gain from United Farmers | Swing | -11.29% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Sturgeon Official Results 1935 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 | ||||||||