Template:1940 Alberta general election/Drumheller

1940 Alberta general election: Drumheller
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
First count
Social Credit Gordon E. Taylor 2,043 47.36% -12.27%
Independent Fred C. Moyer 1,530 35.47% 13.97%
Co-operative Commonwealth W. G. Southern 741 17.18%
Total 4,314
Ballot transfer results
Social Credit Gordon E. Taylor 2,330 57.53%
Independent Fred C. Moyer 1,720 42.47%
Total 4,050
Rejected, spoiled and declined 238
Eligible electors / turnout 5,705 79.74% -13.12%
Social Credit hold Swing -19.07%
Source(s)
Source: "Drumheller 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