QUEENSLAND STATE ELECTIONS
LABOUR’S RETURN ASSURED Brisbane, April 16. Labour’s return to power in Queensland is assured as the result of yesterday’s State elections. The Government will probably lose one seat. The new Queensland People’s Party, headed by the Lord Mavor of Brisbane. Mr J. B. Chandler, has secured seven seats, a [ gain of six, mostly at the expense of the Country National Organisation. The state of the parties in the new j House, compared with the old, will pro- ' bably be: Labour, 37 (previously 38); j Country Party, 12 (previously 13); j Queensland People’s Party 7 (previously 1); Country National Organisations, nil (previously 5); Independents, 5 (previously 6); Communist Party, 1 (previously none). All the Ministers are safe. The Premier. Mr F. Cooper, and the Leader of the Opposition, Mr F. R. Nicklin. were returned unopposed. One of the sensations of the election is the almost certain capture of Bowen by the Communist candidate, Mr F. Paterson, a former Rhodes Scholar, who has been trying to enter Australian politics, both Federal and State, since 1935. Political observers consider the bulk of the support for Mr Paterson to have been on personal grounds.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 18 April 1944, Page 3
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