Template:1940 Alberta general election/Athabasca
| 1940 Alberta general election: Athabasca | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| First count | ||||||||
| Social Credit | Gordon William Lee | 1,965 | 48.13% | -10.11% | ||||
| Independent | M. P. Cordingley | 1,336 | 32.72% | – | ||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Norman J. Shopland | 782 | 19.15% | – | ||||
| Total | 4,083 | – | – | |||||
| Ballot transfer results | ||||||||
| Social Credit | Gordon William Lee | 2,078 | 58.13% | – | ||||
| Independent | M. P. Cordingley | 1,497 | 41.87% | – | ||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Norman J. Shopland | Eliminated | – | – | ||||
| Total | 3,575 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | N/A | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 6,938 | 61.92% | – | |||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | 4.38% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Athabasca 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 | ||||||||