Template:1944 Alberta general election/Okotoks-High River

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1944 Alberta general election: Okotoks-High River
Party Candidate Votes
1st count
% Votes
final count
±%
Social Credit Ivan Casey 2,932 44.61% 3,425 2.41%
Independent John T. Broomfield 2,196 33.41% 2,347 -24.38%
Co-operative Commonwealth J. A. Jeffery 1,444 21.97%
Total 6,572
Rejected, spoiled and declined 107
Eligible electors / turnout 9,854 67.78% -12.77%
Social Credit gain from Independent Swing -2.20%
Source(s)
Source: "Okotoks-High River 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.