"LOOKING FOR A NEW PARTY"
One of the new Independents, Mr. W. D. Lysnar, is reported as staling that he is "looking for a new parly to govern the Dominion." During a triangular General Election—ili'rec parties, plus units and fractionssomething is always liable to turn up, and it may be thai, if the new Parliament meets in a somewhat balanced condition, some old party will be looking for a new member. The political pursuit of a majority in the period between the first and the second ballot will be recalled by
those who remember pre-War politics; and though the second ballot was repealed by Mr. Massey (on promise of a better system that was never implemented) the incidents of that period show that, even under first-past-the-post voting, an Independent in a new Parliament is liable to rise rapidly to a premium in the party market. Of course, it depends on a balance of parties. Still more importantly, it depends on the Independent topping the poll in spite of the party machines. There is quite a fair chance, when Parliament meets, that Mr. Lysnar will find a party if the party can find Mr. Lysnar.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 111, 6 November 1935, Page 8
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