FRENCH ELECTIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 104, 4 May 1936, Page 10

FRENCH ELECTIONS

THE SECOND BALLOT

TWO MINISTERS DEFEATED

LEFTISTS GAIN IN FIRST

RESULTS

(Received May 4. 2.20 p.m.)

™ v o PARIS, May X The final election ballot in 433 constituencies passed off quietly. Fewer polled than before in some districts, despite pressing exhortations from all : parties. Right candidates observed a pact by withdrawing candidates who had the smallest chance of election, but among the Front Populaire *20 .Socialists opposed Radicals, while'H Radicals opposed Socialists. The Front ula<r?>,^uding 93 Communists contested 313 seats, the Communists usually announcing their candidates'as members of the Front Populaire " Early results indicated that the Left Wing had secured four-fifths of ihe first 79 results, these going to the Frpnt .Populaire including -17 Communists, ''red onL we« elected M Parisian JZhn t *■ ° alrman Bbussouteot, AtL\t n' t T haS flow «-the South fr^Tri wr n umg aS a Communist, defeated M. Fabry, ex-Minister of W who is one of the founders of tho famous Maginot line of defences Defeated candidates include M Franklyn Bouillon, the Nationalist leader; M.. Deat, Air Minister, 'by a Communist; and M. Stern, Minister for Colonies. -:..

The Cabinet, which lost two Ministers in the first ballot of last week now needs reconstruction. . '

Elected candidates' include .M Herriot, M. Reynaud, advocate of devaluation, and M. Taittinger, 2eader~oi the Young Patriots.