THE CAPE ELECTIONS
TO-DAY’S POLLING
United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
CAPETOWN, June 11
• The polls in connection with the South African Union General Election will lie held on Wednesday. The campaign is closing with the electoral prospects most difficult to analyse and the oldest publicists are being puzzled. These difficulties aie increased By a new deliniination of the constituencies, affecting practically all of the seats, and a large number of them most radically. At the General Election in 1924, the South African Party secured 54 seats, with a total poll of 150,000 votes. The Nationalist Party (forming the Government) secured 63 seats in 1924, with Iff ,000 votes. Labour in 1924 won 17 seats with oz.OOO votes. It is generally believed that Laboui owing to ther being an 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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Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1929, Page 5
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