HEAVY POLL REGISTERED
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,„. ... LONDON, 10th..Jane. Ihe Dublin correspondent of "Th# Times" says a heavy poll war th» most remarkable feature of the ' clew tions. It exceeded 7i» per cent., an* m some districts 80 per cent., eonjare.j with 60 in 1923. Not many- of t1.9 «8"v! are expected to be declared before Sunday, owing to the tedious* nese of counting in proportional xepre* sentation, especially %vhere a host of ■ -, U P t"lv te3 3re *OJLiost™g * few seats. ; Ihe heavy poll is expected to faVonn iqS» Gov;f n,lmeilt> •» the Bepnblieani-'irf. 1923 polled every available voter, Trhila the majority of the ne>r voters ionsisfc of former Unionists «vho hitherto hava not participated in Free State elections. They voted in thousands to keep out the Eepubhcans, .fearing >a ma^ity, following Do Valera's ..leturn from* America, equipped with . plentiful
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 136, 13 June 1927, Page 9
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139HEAVY POLL REGISTERED Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 136, 13 June 1927, Page 9
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