The Victory of Smuts.
MAJORITY OVER ALL PARTIES. Capetown, February 12. The South African Party gained the Berkley seat, giving Smute a majority of 22 over all parties. Tho state of parties is:— South Africans 7 * Labour • •_-" u t Nationalists " 43 Independent * »•• * Only the* Free State showed a majority for secession and returned sixteen Nationalists and one Labourite. In the whole Union, 62 per cent of the electors voted) secession. A feature of tho election has been the great number of working men who supported Smuts' policy of a non-racial South Africa under the Union constatution. The 1 lailwaymen's votes undoubtedly helped to give Smuts his majority.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 February 1921, Page 3
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