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Template:1940 Alberta general election/Stony Plain

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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