Template:1948 Alberta general election/Pincher Creek-Crowsnest
| 1948 Alberta general election: Pincher Creek-Crowsnest | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count |
% | Votes final count |
±% | |||
| Social Credit | William A. Kovach | 2,210 | 45.30% | 2,292 | 1.89% | |||
| Liberal | J. W. Rutherford | 998 | 20.46% | 1,045 | – | |||
| Labor–Progressive | B. R. Swankey | 856 | 17.54% | – | – | |||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | John Lloyd | 815 | 16.70% | – | -3.09% | |||
| Total | 4,879 | – | – | – | ||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 498 | – | – | – | ||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 7,465 | 72.03% | -1.21% | – | ||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | 9.12% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Pincher Creek-Crowsnest 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. | ||||||||