VICTORIAN ELECTIONS
Mandate for Upper House Reform (Received 12 8.45 a.m.) melb6urne, Oct. 11 The polls were declared in most of the Victorian electorates to-day. The final Btate of the parties is — United Australia ........ 21 Country Party 20 LabOur ................ 20 Indepqndent Labour .... 1 Independents .......... 3 The Premier, Mr. Duustan, will carry on the Country. Party Administration with the support of Labour. Mr. Dunstan claims that the election resulted in a mandate from the people for the reform of the Legislative Council, and he intends to re-introduce the Reform Bill early this session. Mr. Dunstan said to-day that if the Council again rejected the Bill it would be a sorry day for democracy. If the democratic system of government were to prevail, the will of the people must be supreme.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 16, 12 October 1937, Page 5
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