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Template:1940 Alberta general election/Clover Bar

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1940 Alberta general election: Clover Bar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
First count
Social Credit Floyd M. Baker 2,252 44.17% -8.90%
Co-operative Commonwealth David Roberts 1,476 28.95%
Independent A. H. Gibson 1,370 14.92%
Total 5,098
Ballot transfer results
Social Credit Floyd M. Baker 2,418 59.19%
Co-operative Commonwealth David Roberts 1,667 40.81%
Total 4,085
Rejected, spoiled and declined 208
Eligible electors / turnout 6,814 77.87% -8.11%
Social Credit hold Swing N/A%
Source(s)
Source: "Clover Bar 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