| 1940 Alberta general election: Bruce | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| First count | ||||||||
| Social Credit | James L. McPherson | 2,018 | 48.01% | – | ||||
| Independent | B. C. Gilpin | 1,433 | 34.09% | – | ||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | E. A. Moen | 752 | 9.19% | – | ||||
| Total | 4,203 | – | – | |||||
| Ballot transfer results | ||||||||
| Social Credit | James L. McPherson | 2,203 | 55.30% | – | ||||
| Independent | B. C. Gilpin | 1,781 | 44.70% | – | ||||
| Total | 3,984 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 122 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 6,027 | 71.76% | – | |||||
| Social Credit pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Bruce Official Results 1940 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 | ||||||||
