Five Doubtful Seats In Federal Elections

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 519, 23 November 1928, Page 9

Five Doubtful Seats In Federal Elections

INTEREST FOCUSSED POSITION IN THE SENATE (United PA. —By Telegraph — Cop: • ' ' Reed. 0-50 a.m. SYDNEY. To-da' Political interest is now focus- d on the live doubtful seats in th House of Representatives, namely. Herbert and Kennedy (Queensland*. Boothbv South Australia), Franklin and Denison (Tasmania). Present indications are that Hi Government candidates w ill vin three and Labour two, the abse;u«v votes, which are now being counted, favouring the retiring members in each instance. It is noteworthy that these particular electorates invariably provide neck-and-neck tussles with a mere handful of votes separating the c*ndidates at the finish. The present state of parties for the House of Representatives is ns tollows: Nationalists Country Party u Labour .. . 27 Doubtful .. •« .. 5 The counting for the Senate is still proceeding. The prospects are that Labour will w’in from the Governnieir. three seats each in New South Wales. South Australia and Queensland, a total of nine; but the issue in Victoria and Western Australians still dotib ful. The state of parties at the disaolut n of Parliament was:—Nationalist Country Party 14, Labour 23. The state of the parties befor* ih election in the Senate was: —Anti-T..»b ’-i 27, Labour 9. LABOUR ENCOURAGED MUNICIPAL ELECTION B-D Reed. 10.20 a.m. SYDNEY, To-day. Encouraged by the result of the F. eral election, the Australian Labe itParty has endorsed 500 candidates a Labour representatives at the municipal elections of New South Wales on December 1. This is the first occasion on which a concerted attempt h •- been made to contest the elections for all the councils and shires throe out the State.