GENERAL ELECTION

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 277, 27 October 1925, Page 8

GENERAL ELECTION

FULL LIST OF CANDIDATES. MANY ASPIRANTS FOR OFFICE. Nominations for all electorates closed at noon to-day, and the names given below are those who. had indicated their intention of being aspirants for office, R. nstading for Reform, I.lt. for Independent Reform, N. for Nationalist, L. for Labour, Lib. for Liberal, C. for Country Party, and I. for Independent. Those who were members of last Parliament are marked * and those members of previous Parliaments t. '

For the 76 European constituencies there are 190 candidates compared with 197 in 1922. ' Reform has 68 candidates, Labour 56, and the Nationalists 49. The following table shows the number of candidates for each party who contested seats in 1922 and the number successful and also gives the number standing in each interest

In addition there are four Maori constituencies, for which there are eight candidates. In the last Parliament three of these seats wert held by Reformers and the other (Eastern Maori) by Hon. A. T. Ngata, who is now standing as a Nationalist.

this year. Candidates 1925 1922 Electtd. 1922 Reform 68 71 35 National 49 • — Liberal 6 55 19 Labour 56 44 17 Country 6 — — Independents 5 27 5 Totals ... 190 197 76