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Template:1955 Alberta general election/Clover Bar

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1955 Alberta general election: Clover Bar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
First count
Social Credit Floyd M. Baker 2,314 47.64% -9.13%
Liberal Wilfred McLean 1,609 33.13% 13.62%
Co-operative Commonwealth Martin Reynolds 603 12.42% -11.30%
Conservative Andrew M. Adamson 331 6.81%
Total 4,857
Ballot transfer results
Social Credit Floyd M. Baker 2,505 53.72%
Liberal Wilfred McLean 2,158 46.28%
Total 4,663
Rejected, spoiled and declined 298
Eligible electors / turnout 7,302 70.60% 4.54%
Social Credit hold Swing N/A%
Source(s)
Source: "Clover Bar Official Results 1955 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