MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.
SINN FEIN VICTORY
(Received January 22, 10.30 a.m.)
LONDON, January 18
Sinn Fein did not obtain the predicted sweeping victory at the Irish municipal elections, in which proportional representation was introduced. Sinn Fein had small majorities in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, and other towns in the South and West. The Labour Party, which is favourable, to Sinn Fein, secured the next largest representation. Unionists, Reformers, Nationalists, and Independents combined, and have substantial representation, though in a minority. Sinn Fein have forty-one out of eighty seats in the Dublin Corporation, compared with seven previously, and the Nationalists have nine, compared with iifty-one. In ulster the Unionist majority has been substantially reduced. They have thirty-six seats in the Belfast out of sixty, compared with fifty-two previ-
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XL, Issue 9210, 22 January 1920, Page 5
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