GENERAL ELECTION

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 107, 2 November 1938, Page 11

GENERAL ELECTION

OFFICIAL COUNTS

WELLINGTON SEATS

MANY ,NON-VOTERS

With the official count for Wellington Central completed a little arithmetic shows that a surprising number of people on the rolls for the six Wellington city seats and Hutt did not record their votes in the General Election on October 15. The total roll number for the seven electorates was given as 116,695, and the total" number of votes cast was 104,098, the difference being 12,597. Wellington has the two largest electorates in the Dominion,' Wellington | North, with a roll of 18,999, and Wel-j lington West, with 17,902, but there wer.e many electors who failed to exerciie their privilege. The following unofficial figures, show hoty the electors of Wellington responded to candidates' appeals to vote:— < Effectire 8011. Votes Cast. Wellingtoa Central ... 17,013 ' 15,004 Wellington East 15,927 14,551 Wellington South .... 15,810 13,967 Wellington Suburbs .. 15,754 14,662 "Wellington North 18,999 15,956 Wellington West .... 17,902 15,256 Hutt ........ 15,290 14,672 . Totals ...... 116.G95 104,098 In the following results of official counts, members of the last Parliament ' are denoted by an asterisk: — Wellington Central. ♦Hon. P. Fraser (L.) 9376 W. Appleton (N.) ........ 5539 Informal 89 " i Majority for Fraser ...... .3837 Increase, 402. Postal votes and votes of seamen and absentees were cast as follows:—rSeamen's votes, Fraser 168, Appleton 23; absentee votes, Fraser 524, Appleton 329, postal votes, Fraser 142, Appleton 104. Franklin. J., N. Massey (N.) . . ...< • 5542 E. Piggott (L.) ......... 3485 *A. C. A. Sexton (1.C.P.) 1564 Informal ••— 37 Majority for Massey 2057 Increase 57. , Gisborne. *D. W. Coleman (L.) ...... 8158 K. F. Jones (N.) 4518 Informal 71 Majority for Coleman .... 3640 Increase 164. Hauraki. J. M. Allen (N.) ..,V " 5291 *R. Coulter (L.) 4103 Informal 97 Majority for Allen 1188 : ~ Decrease 57* Mataura. T. L. Macdonald (N.) .... 5898 *D.-McDougall (I.) ........ 4383 Informal 45 Majority for Macdonald . 1515 Decrease 61. Thames. *J. Thorn (L.) * 6985 W;. A. Clark (N.) 4670 ;'• informal'- ~ 100^ Majority for Thorn ~2295 Increase 123. Waikato. •W. S. Goosman (N.) 6944 J.W. Neate (L.) 4016^ Informal 136 Majority for Goosman 2928 ' Increase 34. Westland. *J. O'Brien (L.) 7631 E. B. E. Taylor (1.N.) .... 3902 Informal ...... 51 Majority for O'Brien ...» 3729 Increase 244.