SOUTH AFRICA VOTING
PROSPECTS OF PARTIES
PUZZLING POSITION
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. .United.Service. .'".--, CAPETOWN, 11th June.' The polls' in connection with the South African General Election will be held on Wednesday. The campaign is closing with , the electoral prospects most' difficult' to analyse, and the oldest publicists are feing puzzled. The. difficulties are increased by the new delimitation of constituencies, affecting practically all. seats, a large number most radically. ; . .■, At the General Election in 1924, the South African Party secured 54 seats with a ;total poll of 150,000 votes; the Nationalists 63 seats with 117,000 votes; Labour, 17 seats with 52,000 votes. It is generally believed that Labour, owing to'the acute division in its "own ranks, will sustain a damaging defeat, not returning more than six members to the new House, which will consist of 148 members. Many even predict the complete obliteration" of the Labour Party in its present form.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 135, 12 June 1929, Page 9
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152SOUTH AFRICA VOTING Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 135, 12 June 1929, Page 9
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