| 1944 Alberta general election: Banff-Cochrane | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count |
% | Votes final count |
±% | |||
| Social Credit | Arthur H. Wray | 1,568 | 38.51% | 1,805 | -0.43% | |||
| Independent | Frank Laut | 1,602 | 39.34% | 1,757 | -21.72% | |||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | D. MacGregor | 902 | 22.15% | – | – | |||
| Total | 4,072 | – | – | – | ||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 118 | – | – | – | ||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 5,698 | 73.53% | -6.86% | – | ||||
| Social Credit gain from Independent | Swing | -11.48% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Banff-Cochrane Official Results 1944 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. | ||||||||
