LIBERAL DEFEAT
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ELECTION. PREMIER’S SEAT IN DOUBT. OTHERS CLOSELY PRESSED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received April 7, 10.5 a.m. ADELAIDE, April 7. The general elections were held in South Australia on Saturday and resulted in the defeat of the Butler Government after being three years in office, . Mr R. L. Butler’s position is still in doubt, and he will have difficulty in retaining his seat. There is a possibility of Mr G. F. Jenkins, Commissioner of Crown Lands, being defeated. Mr H. Homburg, the AttorneyGeneral, is being closely pressed, and Mr M. Mclntosh, the Minister of Education, is by no means certain of being returned. The counting of votes is necessarily slow owing to the complicated preferential voting system. Contests occurred in 42 constituencies, for which there were 96 candidates. All the members of the House cf Assembly and half the members of the Legislative Council went to the country.
The state of parties in the House of Assembly after the elections on April 8, 1927, was as follows: Liberals, 26; Labour, 17; Country Party, 3.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 111, 7 April 1930, Page 7
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