EVERY SEAT CARRIED.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 795, 19 April 1910, Page 5

EVERY SEAT CARRIED.

LABOUR IN THE SENATE. QUEENSLAND COMING INTO LINE. POLLING DETAILS. By Teleeraph—Press Association—Copyright ■■'.' .'' : Sydney, April 18. ■ In the Senate election, Queensland has moved into lino with the other States by placing the three (Labour candidates ahead. ■ .: •. - . ' On the present showing the strength of parties,will be: •'.:.-' Labour 23 Fusion Government ............;... 13 Labour majority, 10 . . [This means that every State has carried the Labour .team, for the Senate. All the eighteen seats have.gone to the Labour party, and, with the five seats thoy held in the sitting half of the Upper House, their strength in the Senate will be 33. The 13 Fusiqnists are those who were not required to go to the poll.]. ■-■ ( ; . THE PLUEALITT IN VICTORIA. \'(Bee, April 18, 10.25 pjn.) Sydney, April 18. The complete returns of the Senate election in Victoria ehow that the total votes polled by the three successful . Labour candidates (Messrs. Edward Find.ley, Stephen Barkor, - and A. E. ,H. Blakey) and by the three, Fusion Government candidates were as under:— . Labour 645,402' , : Fusion, Government ......... 614,977 ;. ' Excess of Labour votes .30,125' ' The' lowest. Labour candidate was 2014 votes ahead,of the leading Fusionist candidate. .; , \- -. ■ ■ Miss '!■' Vida : Goldstein . '(Independent), the only woman candidate in the election, carried 53,343 votes. ' ' ',]''' HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ■ ■'.■■ ■ -.- ' .. .-..•,■■ i ~ ■ . . DISTRIBUTION OF VOTES. ..': ;' .. ■' Sydney, April 18.' The retains of the voting for the House of Representatives are practically com-, plete. . ■■': : '•- ' , . , , ' The total number of voters on the rolls was 2,156,339, and the votes cast (not in-' cfuSing informal, which were comparatively heavy) numbered 1,266,934. The percentage of -the votes cast was ■ 58.75, compared .'with 51.48 at the . 1906 election.: In all the States, with the' exception of Tasmania, where there was a 6lighf decrease, the , percentage substantially increased, particularly in. Western Australia. /■■ ;., ..■'■:-.'•. ■.:' ■' ;.'■ V\, • ' ' / The" votes were divided between Labour, the , ' Fusion Government,: and , the ; Independents, as,under:— . . '. '■■ ■■' .;'. Labour ....:.:'...,.'..i..."............ .633,382 ' Fusion Govetninent. ...'.._„ 577,i0i v ..:..;.........'....... ,56,448 [It will be seen that Fusionist and Independent votes, added together, come to just 170 more:than Labour. But at least two, of-the elected Independents sympathise with Labour,' may' berelied on . to give; Labour a general support, and were in fact, in earlier cablegrams, counted in with the Labour : following, Labour - not having 1 opposed their return.]

LABOUR LEADER TO GO SOUTH THIS ■■-■ , .'■■■ ;" y,' WEEK.. . ; i '-•■■• ■-'■■■ .-.. '' ■•:.' Sydney, April 18. Mr. Fisher, Leader/of ' the ''Labour' party,'who has ■ been , successful',in. ' his Wide Bay (Queenslaridj'seatj retuniett.to' Brisbane on Satorday/' A-great gathering at:the railway, station gave-him an , thusiastid^recoptionrvMr.:,'Fisher' , will leave for ,6n Thursday next!