Zimbabwe poll
NZPA-Reuter Bulawayo The Republican Front party of the former Rhodesian Prime Minister. lan Smith, has easily won a byelection in an all-white constituency. But only a few of the electorate voted. Only 456 people voted in the by-election in the southwest of Zimbabwe out of an official voters’ roll of 3367. But white migration has probably reduced the actual number of voters by about half.
The Front’s candidate. Des Chalmers, had a majority of 210 over his rivals in a ballot which had been seen as a test of the Front’s popularity among Zimbabwe’s whites. The by-election was the first in one of the 20 seats reserved for whites in the 100-seat Zimbabwean Parliament since nine members broke away from the Front last month to sit as Independents. They argued that the Front, which ruled Rhodesia throughout years of war against the black nationalists now in power, was too rooted in its white supremist past.
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Press, 13 April 1982, Page 20
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