STATE ELECTIONS
NEW SOUTH WALES SEATS LITTLE PUBLIC INTEREST SYDNEY, May 9 Seldom has a State election evoked such little public interest as that which ir, to be held to-morrow The party organisers, of both sides have found it most difficult to judge the general feeling of the electors. Many candidates had to explain their policies to mere handfuls of supporters. Both sides express confidence in victory The Labour Party goes to the poll with 32 seats and must win 14 more to give it a majority of two, which would be reduced to one after the election of the Speaker The present state of the parties is: Government 55. Labour 34. Independent 1. One Labour seat has been abolished by redistribution, and another is so changed that Labour has not nominated a candidate.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24603, 10 May 1941, Page 9
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134STATE ELECTIONS Otago Daily Times, Issue 24603, 10 May 1941, Page 9
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