HEAVY POLLING
ELECTIONS IN AUSTRIA
LONDON, November 25. There has been heavy polling in the Austrian elections. More than 90 per cent, of the electors in some districts of Vienna cast their votes today. The elections were the first for 14 years. Correspondents speak of order and calm throughout the country.
Allied soldiers patrolled the streets of the capital, but t were not called on to intervene.
One village claims a 100 per cent, poll. All men -and women over 21 are eligible to vote unless they are Nazis or war criminals. The election is by proportional representation, and competition was keen among the main parties—the Social Democrats and the People's Party—with Communists among the others. The leaders of all three parties said today that no matter how the voting went there would be an All-Party Coalition Government.
A Swiss broadcast says that in one area just across the border the polling gave the People's Party 70 per cent, of the votes; the Social Democrats 28 per cent.; and the Communists 2 per cent. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 127, 26 November 1945, Page 7
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