Template:1940 Alberta general election/Stony Plain
| 1940 Alberta general election: Stony Plain | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count |
% | Votes final count |
±% | |||
| Social Credit | Cornelia R. Wood | 1,914 | 44.72% | 2,213 | -14.44% | |||
| Independent | William J. Connolly | 1,228 | 28.69% | 1,606 | – | |||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | T. J. Hardwick | 942 | 22.01% | – | – | |||
| Independent Farmer | George E. Bevington | 196 | 4.58% | – | – | |||
| Total | 4,280 | – | – | – | ||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 168 | – | – | – | ||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 6,124 | 72.63% | -10.20% | – | ||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | -6.19% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Stony Plain 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 | ||||||||