VICTORY FOR UNITY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1938, Page 8

VICTORY FOR UNITY

IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTIONS UNITED PARTY STRONGLY SUPPORTED. BIG VOTE FOR GENERAL SMUTS By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day, 9.30 a.m.) CAPE TOWN, May 19. The state of parties is as follows: United Party 86 Nationalists 6 Dominion 7 Labour 3 Socialist 1 Ministers whose return has thus far been declared are General J. C. Smuts Messrs J. C. G. Kemp (Lands), and D. Reitz (Agriculture). General Smuts secured 75 per cent of the votes in his electorate. The results of the election are accepted as a definite victory for the unity of the two races, and the policy of the United Party. The Government placed 146 candidates in the field. The principal Opposition party, the Republican group, self-styled, “purified Nationalists,” had 104 candidates, led by Dr Malan. It aims at the establishment of an independent Republic. Other opposition groups are the Dominion Party, with 33 candidates, which appeals exclusively to the British element, Labour, with 36 candidates, and Independents with 35 candidates. The state of parties at the end of the last, the seventh Parliament was as follows: — ' United Party (including vacant Magalisberg seat) 117 National 21 Dominion Party 5 Labour Party 4 Independents ..: 2 Socialists 1 Native representatives 3 The result of the general election in 1933 was: Nationalists, 75; South African Party, 61; Labour (Coalitionist), 2; Labour, 2; Roos Party, 2; Home Rule Party, 2; Independents, 6; total, 150,