MAJORITY TWENTY-NINE

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 146, 21 June 1924, Page 7

MAJORITY TWENTY-NINE

ANALYSIS OF VOTING

RESULTS NOT PROPORTIONAL.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIGBT.)

(AUSTRALIAN-SEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

(Received 21st June, 11 a.m.)

CAPETOWN, 20th June.

It is now certain that the Pact majority will be 29, and the few remaining seats cannot affect the result. The Nationalists will bs the largest party, with 63 seats; the South African Party will have 53, Labour 18, and there is one Independent. At the time of the dissolution the South African Party numbered 71. (RENTER'S TELEGRAM.) (Received 21st June, 11.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN, 20th June. An analysis of the election statistics Seveals that the South African Party polled 150,000 votes, against 169,000 given for the Pact. Thus, while the Nationalists will be the strongest individual party in the new House, the South African Party is the individual party which polled the most votes in the union as a whole. The returns for 127 contested seats show that the South African Party polled 36,000 more votes than the Nationalists, yet they hold eight fewer seats. The strength of the Pact lies •• in the Transvaal, the Free State, and the north-west of the Cape. The South African Party strongholds aro the Eastern Province, the Cape Peninsula, and Natal.