CONSERVATIVES FAR AHEAD IN JAPAN’S FOURTH ELECTION
NEW YORK, May 2. Independents and Conservatives were far ahead early this morning in the last of Japan’s elections—that for the prefectural councils, or state legislatures. More than 1400 seats have been decided. Independents have won 482, Democrats 300, Liberals 101, and Co-operatives 74. Communist candidates have failed to gain a.seat. The Tokio correspondent of the New York Times says that the election bears out General MacArthur’s statement of April 27 that Japan had repudiated Communism. On the basis of results now available from the four elections, the Communists have four seats in the House of Representatives, four in the House of Councillors, which replaces the House of Peers, none in the prefectural administrations, and none in the large city governments. They also failed to elect any state governors.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 May 1947, Page 7
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