AFRICAN ELECTION
PROSPECTS DIFFICULT TO ANALYSE POLL TAKES PLACE TODAY (Australian and K.Z. Press Association) (United. Service) CAPETOWN, Monday. Polling in connection with, the General Election in South Africa will take place on Wednesday. The campaign is coming to an end with the prospects of the parties most difficult to analyse. The oldest publicists are puzzled. The difficulties have been increased by a new delimitation of the constituencies. This affects practically all the seats in the House of Assembly, a large number most radically. As a result of the General Election in 1924 the state of parties was:—
It is generally believed that owing to the acute division in the ranks of the Labour Party it will suffer a damaging defeat and not have more than six members returned to the new House, which will consist of 148 members compared with 135 in 1924. Many people even predict the complete obliteration of the Labour Party in its present divided form.
Seats. Aggregate Votes. South African Party 53 150.000 Nationalists .. . . .. 63 113,000 Labour .. .. .. .. is 42,000 Indeepndent .... 1 11,000
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 687, 12 June 1929, Page 9
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177AFRICAN ELECTION Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 687, 12 June 1929, Page 9
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