FEDERAL ELECTIONS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 116, 23 November 1928, Page 9

FEDERAL ELECTIONS

INDICATIONS OF RESULT THE STATE OF PARTIES United. Press Association—By Electric ToloI graph—Copyright. I (Received 23rd November, 10 a.m.) I SYDNEY, This Day. Political interest in the Federal Elections is now focused on five doubtful seats in tho House of Representatives, namely, the Horbert and Kennedy seats in Queensland; Bopthby, in South Australia, and Franklin and Denison in Tasmania. Present indications are that Government candidates will win throe and Labour two, the absentee votes, which are now being counted, favouring the retiring members in each instance. It is noteworthy that these particular electorates invariably provido neck and neck tussles, with a mere handful of votes separating the candidates a.t tho finish. ■ The present state of parties for tho House of Representatives is as follows: 'Nationalist 29 Country Party 14 Labour 27 Doubtful 5 Counting for the Senate is still proceeding, and the prospects are that Labo1"- will win from the Government three seats each in New South Wales, South Australia, and Queensland, a total of nine, but the issue in Victoria and Western Australia is still doubtful. Encouraged by the result of the Federal election, 'the Australian Labour Party has endorsed five hundred candidates as Labour representatives at the municipal elections in New South Wales on Ist December. This is the first occasion when a concerted attempt has been made to contest elections for all councils and shires throughout the State. . ...