Template:1955 Alberta general election/Athabasca
| 1955 Alberta general election: Athabasca | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| First count | ||||||||
| Social Credit | Antonio Aloisio | 2,073 | 46.43% | -2.72% | ||||
| Liberal | Richard Edward Hall | 2,069 | 46.34% | 26.76% | ||||
| Labor–Progressive | John Harry | 293 | 3.38% | – | ||||
| Total | 4,435 | – | – | |||||
| Ballot transfer results | ||||||||
| Liberal | Richard Edward Hall | 2,145 | 50.57% | – | ||||
| Social Credit | Antonio Aloisio | 2,097 | 49.43% | – | ||||
| Labor–Progressive | John Harry | Eliminated | – | – | ||||
| Total | 4,242 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | N/A | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 6,581 | 67.39% | – | |||||
| Liberal gain from Social Credit | Swing | -14.23% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Athabasca 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 | ||||||||