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Template:1926 Alberta general election/Bow Valley

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1926 Alberta general election: Bow Valley
Party Candidate Votes
1st count
% Votes
final count
±%
Liberal Joseph Tweed Shaw 847 35.94% 1,048 -36.36%
United Farmers Ben S. Plumer 869 36.87% 1,047 9.17%
Conservative Edmund F. Purcell 641 27.20%
Total 2,357
Rejected, spoiled and declined 188
Eligible electors / turnout 3,750 67.87%
Liberal hold Swing -22.77%
Source(s)
Source: "Bow Valley Official Results 1926 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.