1930 Alberta general election: Medicine Hat
Party Candidate Votes
1st count
% Votes
final count
±%
Liberal Hector Lang 1,774 45.97% 2,046 6.07%
Conservative C. S. Blanchard 1,150 29.80% 1,365 -2.09%
Independent Issac Bullivant 935 24.23%
Total 3,859
Rejected, spoiled and declined 336
Eligible electors / turnout 5,662 74.09% 1.76%
Liberal hold Swing 3.95%
Source(s)
Source: "Medicine Hat Official Results 1930 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.