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Return showing the Number of Votes recorded for each Candidate at General Election, 1908, &c.— continued.

1908. 1905. Number of votes recorded for members elected .. 233,328 216,378 Number of votes recorded for defeated candidates .. 177,178 173,811 Number of electors who recorded their votes at the First Ballot but did not vote at Second Ballot .. . . 13,546 Number of informal votes .. .. .. .. 4,596 Total number of electors who recorded their votes .. 428,648 395,657 Total number of electors on rolls .. .. .. 537,003 476,473 1906. 1901. Total population at last census .. .. .. 888,376 772,504 Figures marked * represent electors who did not vote at either first or second ballot in electorates where such second ballots were held.

Maori Election. —Return showing Number of Votes polled by each Candidate.

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Electoral Districts and Names of Candidates. For each Candidate. Number if Votes recorded. Informal rp , Votes. lotaL Number AT , - » f Sjf /SSL Population at Census, 1906. Clutha— Malcolm, Alexander Scott Isitt, Francis Whitmore .. Mataura — Anderson, George James .. McNab, Robert Wakatipu — Fraser, William Martin, Andrew Wallace — Thomson, John Charles Macpherson, Dugald Ward, Benjamin Invercargill— Hanan, Josiah Alfred Paape, Arthur Albert Awarua — Ward, Joseph George Morris, William Arthur Snowball, Alfred 2,318 519 2.508 2,142. 2,646 1,495 2,971 1,625 40 43 15 39 2,880 4,665 4,180 2,197 1,129 1,375 5,077 5,794 5,555 10,868 11,474 10,450 188 4,824 972 5,796 10,678 3,119 2,271 124 5,5i4 1,539 7,053 12,507 3,069 886 595 177 4,727 1,062 5,789 10,682 I i Total 410,506 4,596 415,102 108,355 537,003 888,376

Number of Votes recorded. Number of Votes recorded. Electoral Districts and Names of Candidates. Electoral Districts and Names of Candidates. For each T , , Candidate. 10W1 " For each „, , Candidate. lotal - Northern Maori — Heke, Hone Rangi, Hare te 1,468 423 1,891 Western Maori — Kaihau, Henare Eketone, Pepene Tukino, Te Heuheu Ao, Hema te .. Kahu, Eruera te 2,375 1,618 1,375 1,178 728 Southern Maori — Parata, Tame Uru, Teone Hopere Wharewitu West, Charles 7,274 Eastern Maori — Ngata, Apirana Paaka, Tiki .. 4,740 1,730 358 351 21 730 6,470 Total .. 16,365 Inset 1—H. 30a.