| 1940 Alberta general election: Pembina | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| First count | ||||||||
| Independent | George MacLachlan | 1,719 | 42.43% | – | ||||
| Social Credit | Harry Knowlton Brown | 1,589 | 39.22% | -17.84% | ||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | W. Mentz | 743 | 18.34% | – | ||||
| Total | 4,051 | – | – | |||||
| Ballot transfer results | ||||||||
| Independent | George MacLachlan | 1,980 | 52.13% | – | ||||
| Social Credit | Harry Knowlton Brown | 1,818 | 47.87% | – | ||||
| Total | 3,798 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 244 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 7,152 | 60.05% | -20.03% | |||||
| Independent gain from Social Credit | Swing | -2.00% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Pembina 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. | ||||||||
