JAPANESE ELECTIONS
LITTLE PUBLIC INTEREST CONSERVATIVE VICTORY PREDICTED Rec. 0.30 a.m. TOKIO, Apl. 20. In the first national election intended to give effect to the new Constitution, which will operate from May 3, the Japanese nation voted to-day to choose delegates for the House of Councillors, which will replace the House of Peers. It is estimated that from 35 to 40 per cent, of the 36.000.000 eligible abstained from voting. Various reasons are given for this apathy. The New York HeraldTribune’s correspondent declared that the average Japanese failed to understand the nature of the new body, and also that, because many of the candidates were new to the political arena, the electors were not interested from the personal viewpoint. There are nearly 600 candidates for the 250 seats in the new Upper Chamber. ranging from members of the former nobility to Communists, and including, for the first time in Japanese elections, a score who ran as straight labour union nominees without party affiliation. There were .100 seats voted for on a nation-wide basis, and 150 were assigned to specific districts. Most observers predict a Conservative victory similar to that in the local elections early this month. The voting passed off without disorders.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26442, 22 April 1947, Page 7
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