ELECTION FIGURES
LABOUR’S SMALL MAJORITY
A reduction of 19,348 to 18,425 in the Labour Party’s margin of.victory in the 1946 general election is shown when the official count for the 76 European seats is compared with the provisional figures. Final figures show that, with returns from the Maori electorates excluded, Labour polled 512,408 votes and National 493,983, against 476,127 and 456,779 respectively in the provisional count. With the Maori votes included, Labour’s final total was 535,592, or 29,789 more than the National Party’s figure of 505,803. A total of 1,008,322 valid votes was cast in polls for the 76 seats. With voters in the four Maori electorates included the grand total was 1,044,464. The total in 1943 was 828,393 civilian votes for the 76 European seats, and there were also a large number of servicemen whose -votes were separately- recorded. In 1938 the total was 924,057 and in 1935 it was 834,682. The manner in which different parts of the country voted is clearlyshown by the final figures. They also reveal that the Labour and National Parties not only gained 38 European seats each, but that each party won 25 seats in the North Island and 13 in the South Island. Only the two main parties received any appreciable measure of support, the Independents, Communists and others gaining only 0.19 per cent, of the votes cast in the 76 European electorates.
Final figures show that although Labour had a margin of 18,425 votes over the 76 seats, in the North Island the National Party had a lead of 1556 votes, with a total of 329,477, against Labour’s 327,921. In the South Island, however, Labour polled 184,487, compared with the National total of 164,506, a difference of 19,981. The major contribution to Labour’s advantage in votes in the south came from Christchurch, where Labour polled 56,243 votes and National 37,676. In the South Island outside Christchurch and Dunedin the National Party had 104,000 supporters and Labour 95,760.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 97, 21 February 1947, Page 3
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326ELECTION FIGURES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 97, 21 February 1947, Page 3
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