Template:1948 Alberta general election/Banff-Cochrane
| 1948 Alberta general election: Banff-Cochrane | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count |
% | Votes final count |
±% | |||
| Independent Social Credit | Arthur H. Wray | 1,658 | 41.57% | 1,964 | – | |||
| Independent Movement | Frank Laut | 1,246 | 31.24% | 1,465 | – | |||
| Social Credit | William Robert King | 1,084 | 27.18% | – | -11.33% | |||
| Total | 3,988 | – | – | – | ||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 291 | – | – | – | ||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 7,356 | 58.17% | -15.36% | – | ||||
| Independent Social Credit gain from Social Credit | Swing | 5.58% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Banff-Cochrane 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. | ||||||||