THE STRENGTH OF PARTIES.
WHERE THEY CLEARLY MET,
Owing to the fact that in a few of the contests there were no Government nominees, and in a large number no Reform candidates, the only possible analysis of the voting at the elections must be based on a consideration of those contests in which at the first ballot or the second ballot the final result found Government and Opposition candidates opposed to t-ach other. There were 51 such contests, and the votes cast make these totals:— Opposition 165,883 Government 147,810 On the basis of comparing the actual case in which the two parties met, therefore, the parties stood in the country in the above ratio. From the Opposition are excluded the votes cast for the various candidates who, though not officially members of the Reform party, are pledged to vote against the Government.
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Northern Advocate, 19 December 1911, Page 5
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142THE STRENGTH OF PARTIES. Northern Advocate, 19 December 1911, Page 5
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