Hungarian Election: Communists Accused
(Recd. 10.40 a.m.) BUDAPEST, August 31. Voting began in Hungary’s general election at 12,000 polling stations. The Communist Party reported that three men were killed in election fights with peasants in Somogy county. The three Opposition parties alleged that the Communists organised large-scale “multiple” voting throughout Hungary.
Social Democrat officials said that 300 people travelling by motor-coach and with travellers’ voting cards voted at four or five villages. The local police arrested five, but the State political police released them. The Independents’ Democrat Party officials said that one Communist was caught carrying 150 voting cards. Communist headquarters in Budapest claimed that members of the Social Democrat and Smallholders’ parties were doing the same. 1 The Communist Party issued . reports of the election results tonight, nearly all showing overwhelming Communist majorities.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 September 1947, Page 5
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