HEAVY POLLING

Evening Star, Issue 22955, 12 May 1938, Page 11

HEAVY POLLING

FEW INFORMAL VOTES EXCELLENCE OF ARRANGEMENTS The heavy polling was indicated hy a comparison with the figures for 1935. On that occasion there were 37,228 names on the roll, and the votes cast totalled 28,118, made up as follows: R. S. Black, 5,268; E. T. Cox, 12,215; J. J. Marlow, 10,425; informal, 210. This year, there were 44,287 names on the roll, and. 31,866 electors made use of their privileges, the voting being A. H. Allen, 17,899. E. T. Cox, 13,736. Informal, 231. The strike-out system of voting was used in 1933. That year informal votes amounted to 12.744 per cent, of those cast. The “ cross ” system was used for the first time in 1935, the percentage of informal votes being 1.814 per cent. Yesterday, the informal votes amounted to the surprisingly low total of .725 per cent, of votes recorded. The arrangements for the polling went off without hitch, and the facility with which the returns came to hand was a tribute to the returning officer (Mr (R. A. Johnston) and his fissistants. In the main booths, polling was particularly heavy all day, and the lastminute rush was evident in. several of the suburban booths, necessitating the despatch of additional men in several cases.