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Template:1926 Alberta general election/Medicine Hat

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1926 Alberta general election: Medicine Hat
Party Candidate Votes
1st count
% Votes
final count
±%
Liberal Charles S. Pingle 1,574 44.08% 1,701 2.60%
Conservative Joseph J. Hendricks 1,279 35.82% 1,487 9.75%
Dominion Labor James Hole 718 20.11% -12.83%
Total 3,571
Rejected, spoiled and declined 264
Eligible electors / turnout 5,302 72.33%
Liberal hold Swing 6.81%
Source(s)
Source: "Medicine Hat 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.