IRISH ELECTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1933, Page 6

IRISH ELECTIONS

RIGGER- POLLING THAN 1932

FINAL RESULTS ‘NOT AVAILABLE,

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

(Received Jan. 26th. at 1.40 p.m.) ' LONDON, January 25. The Free State election fount began, bait owing to intricacies due to proportional representation the final, figures will be un avail able until lajffiJim Friday' or Saturday'.' The poll averages eighty per cent compared with 'seventy-five, Jast 'yjjesvjr Few first preferences will lie decisive, some contests, needing a dozen successive counts.

impersonations were wide-proud but rowdyism was nothing unusual. The military were occasionally called out to assist the police. (The Army of Comrades Association used tyre levers and spanners against armed opponents,. A RallyduiT youth was shot in the leg.

.Soltiiers"threatened, to u>:e tear ga,s, and quelled a disturbance in Monaghan. Unopposed candidates are Professors 111 rift and ill ton, Sir James Craig (In,dependents), and Mr Fahey, speaker ol •the Fianna Fail. The electeda include Mr Maguire, Mr« (Joncannon, th ft woman novelist, ;Mr McGdligim (a Cosgraveite). A severe blow was ,the defeat of the (Cosgraveite ex-Speaker, Mr Hayes. •De Valeraites are expected at least to .retain their Dublin seats.

Cosgraye is polling well ] n C°rlc and de Valera is 'leading for Clare.