UNITED AUSTRALIA.

Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 19210, 17 September 1934, Page 3

UNITED AUSTRALIA.

SUCCESS IN ELECTION. ; The Federal Poll. LYONS GOVERNMENT SAFE. COUNTRY PARTY'S SUPPORT. j (A. and N.Z. Cable.) SYDNEY, Sept. 16. As the result of the Federal general election yesterday the Lyons Government,**with its former large majority reduced to a negligible extent, received an unequivocal mandate to carry on. Based on the latest returns the state of parties in the new House of Representatives (74 seats, as against 75 previously), appeared to be as follows, the strengths of the parties in the former House being shown for comparison:— This Last election. House

All the Ministers, with the possible exception of Mr. J. A. Guy, Assistant-Minister for Customs, will be returned. Any seats lost by the Government and the Country Party will be due entirely to the fact that these seats, Labour strongholds, were won during the 1931 landslide and are now reyerting to Labour, as the Prime Minister, Mr. J. A. Lyons, had anticipated. The Government hitherto had an absolute majority over all the other parties, with the result that it was not necessary officially to coalesce with the Country Party. Now, however, the latter party holds the balance of power, and interesting political developments are regarded as inevitable. Unofficially it was stated last night that the Government could count on the.support of the. Country Party.

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