COMMUNISM REJECTED
JAPANESE ELECTORS RESULTS OF FOUR POLLS (10 a.m.) TOKYO, May 2. The New York Times correspondent in Tokyo says the election bore out General MacArthur’s statement on April 27 that Japan had repudiated communism. On the basis of the result's now available from four elections, the Communists have four seats in the House of Representatives, four in the Upper House ■ (House of Councillors which is replacing the House of Peers), none in prefectural administrations, and none in large city governments. They also failed to elect any State Governors. The Independents and Conservatives were far ahead early this morning in the last of Japan’s elections—that for the prefectural councils (State Legislatures). More than 1400 seats have been decided of which Independents won 482, Democrats 300, Liberals 255, Socialists 242, minor parties 101, and Co-opera-tives 74. The Communists failed to gain a seat.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22320, 3 May 1947, Page 5
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