A CAREFUL analysis of the telegraphic election" returns brings out the following results :—There wero eleven uncontested European seats, and excluding Christchurch North (the figures of which were not telegraphed) some 67,280 votes were polled in tbe other 79 doctorates. There is at present no means of ascertaining how many names were on the roll, but the colonial rolls in 1879 had 82,271 names, out of which number only 43,776 recorded their votes, or some 36 per cent, of the adult male population. But in that year there were fourteen uncontested elections against eleven this year. Looking at the votes recorded this year in the 79 electorates, it may be said, roughly, that every seventh soul voted, but this would be only approximate, as • many persons voted for more than one electoral district under the property franchise,
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Auckland Star, Volume XII, Issue 3547, 19 December 1881, Page 2
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