ELECTION IN JAPAN
GOVERNMENT SAFE i A CLEAR MAJORITY SOCIALISTS MAKE GAINS By Telegraph—Press Association-—Copyright (Heceived February 23. 7.1)5 p.m.) LONDON, Feb, 23 A message from Tokio states that as the result of the general election in Japan the Minseito Party.(Liberals) won 205 scats and the Seiyukai Party (Conservatives) 174. It is expected that the smaller parties, with 35 seats, will co-operate with the Minseito Party and support Admiral Okada's non-party Government, which thus will have a clear majority. The Socialists won 18 seats. They will remain outside the coalition. Tho Daily Telegraph's Tokio correspondent states that the Socialists had never previously held more than six seats. Their gains were not due to any revulsion of feeling, but to tho Government's rigorous and successful efforts to ensure a clean election by restricting campaigning expenses so as to enable the poorer candidates to obtain fuller voting strength.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22351, 24 February 1936, Page 10
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