Template:1940 Alberta general election/Drumheller
| 1940 Alberta general election: Drumheller | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| First count | ||||||||
| Social Credit | Gordon E. Taylor | 2,043 | 47.36% | -12.27% | ||||
| Independent | Fred C. Moyer | 1,530 | 35.47% | 13.97% | ||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | W. G. Southern | 741 | 17.18% | – | ||||
| Total | 4,314 | – | – | |||||
| Ballot transfer results | ||||||||
| Social Credit | Gordon E. Taylor | 2,330 | 57.53% | – | ||||
| Independent | Fred C. Moyer | 1,720 | 42.47% | – | ||||
| Total | 4,050 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 238 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 5,705 | 79.74% | -13.12% | |||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | -19.07% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Drumheller 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 | ||||||||