| 1940 Alberta general election: Lacombe | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| First count | ||||||||
| Social Credit | Duncan B. MacMillan | 2,321 | 46.35% | -16.91% | ||||
| Independent | R. E. Chowen | 2,061 | 41.15% | – | ||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | C. M. Ironside | 626 | 12.50% | – | ||||
| Total | 5,008 | – | – | |||||
| Ballot transfer results | ||||||||
| Social Credit | Duncan B. MacMillan | 2,457 | 51.00% | – | ||||
| Independent | R. E. Chowen | 2,361 | 49.00% | – | ||||
| Total | 4,818 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 144 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 6,817 | 75.85% | -10.75% | |||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | N/A | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Lacombe 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 | ||||||||
