ELECTION STATISTICS.
A DEPUTY returning officer supplies us with the following : — I herewith fjorward you a concise • summary of the results/of the late election, shewing the number of rotes on the roll for each riding or district, the number actually polled, the per centage, afod how they voted. If the paper is kept unltU another election comes round it
may prove very instructive. It may be seer p that there is a startling discrepancy between th< number of votes on the roll and the numbei 1 actually polled in some districts, notably J Waipu aud Wairoa.
The correct returns give Thompson three votes less, but this will not affect 1 the general correctness of the above statistics. "■
1 District or Hi- Onßoll. Polled. Thomp-Darga-ding. son. villo. Hikurangi and Maunußiding 735 587 800/o 454 133 , Auckland, &c. 98 — — — [ Wairoa 806 407 Soo/o 179 228 L Waipu ßiding 424.2115U0/o 117 94 Mangapai Riding and Tangihua 170 136 800/o 66 70 Manaia Riding 137 83 610/o 77 6 Maungatnroto , andMareretu 124 82 660/0 64j 18 2494 Total 957 549
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Northern Advocate, 8 October 1887, Page 5
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176ELECTION STATISTICS. Northern Advocate, 8 October 1887, Page 5
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