FEDERAL ELECTIONS
STRONG POSITION OF MINISTERIALISTS. SYDNEY, December 1. Victoria and Tasmania are the only States to have completed the Senate seats, both returning four Ministerialists. The distribution of preferences is coninuing in the other States. In the House of Representatives the state of the parties will be 52 Ministerialists (comprising 39 Nationalists and 13 Country Party) and 23 Labour. FIRST SENATOR ELECTED. SYDNEY, December 2. Senator Cox, the first Senator to be elected for New South Wales, received the required number of votes to-day on the ninth count. A MINISTER DEFEATED. ADELAIDE, December 4. Senator R. V. Wilson (Minister of Markets and Migration) has been definitely defeated by the Country Party candidate, Mr J. H. Chapman. LABOUR’S LOST GROUND. BRISBANE, December 4. The Government won all the three Senate seats. This means that out of 16 Queensland seats in both Houses Labour holds only one—viz., Capricorn. FINAJ. FIGURES FOR HERBERT. BRISBANE, December 6. The final figures of the poll for Herbert show that Mr E. B. Theodore was defeated by 268 votes by. Dr L. W. Nott.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3743, 8 December 1925, Page 34
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