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Template:1926 Alberta general election/Cochrane

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1926 Alberta general election: Cochrane
Party Candidate Votes
1st count
% Votes
final count
±%
United Farmers Robert Milton McCool 883 47.35% 1,013 -16.64%
Liberal William Laut 597 32.01% 673 -4.01%
Conservative F. G. C. Mortimer 385 20.64%
Total 1,865
Rejected, spoiled and declined 120
Eligible electors / turnout 2,624 75.65%
United Farmers hold Swing -6.31%
Source(s)
Source: "Cochrane 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.