| 1952 Alberta general election: Vermilion | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count |
% | Votes final count |
±% | |||
| Social Credit | William R. Cornish | 1,955 | 48.70% | 2,058 | 2.60% | |||
| Liberal | George Kravetz | 835 | 20.80% | 983 | -6.39% | |||
| Farmer | John P. Hocaluk | 655 | 16.32% | 713 | – | |||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Edwin Barber | 569 | 14.18% | – | -12.53% | |||
| Total | 4,014 | – | – | – | ||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 249 | – | – | – | ||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 6,432 | 66.28% | -5.61% | – | ||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | 4.50% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Vermilion Official Results 1952 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. | ||||||||
