Template:1955 Alberta general election/Acadia-Coronation
| 1955 Alberta general election: Acadia-Coronation | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| First count | ||||||||
| Social Credit | Clarence E. Gerhart | 2,026 | 44.38% | – | ||||
| Liberal | James Leland Sims | 1,932 | 42.32% | – | ||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | L. E. Reiman | 607 | 6.78% | – | ||||
| Total | 4,565 | – | – | |||||
| Ballot transfer results | ||||||||
| Liberal | James Leland Sims | 2,263 | 51.61% | – | ||||
| Social Credit | Clarence E. Gerhart | 2,122 | 48.39% | – | ||||
| Total | 4,385 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 297 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 5,815 | 83.63% | – | |||||
| Liberal gain from Social Credit | Swing | N/A | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Acadia-Coronation Official Results 1955 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 | ||||||||