NEARLY 50,000 VOTES STILL TO RE RECEIVED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18614, 16 November 1928, Page 5

NEARLY 50,000 VOTES STILL TO RE RECEIVED.

SOME FINAL RESULTS MAY BE KNOWN BY NEXT SATURDAY. v jial to the "Star.”) WELLINGTON, November 15. The issue remains somewhat in doubt in about a dozen seats owing to the fact that large numbers of absent votes have been notified, but will not be included in the count until the scrutiny and official compilation. Greatly improved facilities were provided for voters wishing to exercise their franchise outside their own electorate, with the result that quite 50,000 votes were registered in this way and have not yet come into the returns. The total of absent votes, postal votes and seamen's rights is 48,923, excluding Christchurch South, which had not been reported to-night. Seats in which there are narrow majorities and large outstanding votes are as follow’, the list showing the party now holding the seat: —

The official procedure when an elector votes outside his electorate is for the returning officer handling the vote to telegraph to the returning officer concerned, seal the ballot paper and forward it by post. Returning officers are now engaged in checking rolls to ascertain if there is duplicate voting or impersonation. When this has been done the official count proceeds, and in some of the larger electorates will take two days. At this stage the votes received from outside areas are counted for the first time. It is expected that most electorates will provide final figures by Saturday, and that some country electorates may not furnish the official count figures until Monday.

Auckland E. Par- AbU. 649 Post- Sea113 * 85 Ttl. 847 Grey Lynn .. U. 521 07 64 652 Franklin R. 446 58 3 507 Waikato .. -. U. 515 4S — 563 Patea R. 417 130 — 547 Wellington N. L. 80S SO 2201.138 Kaiapoi ... . U. 520 49 1 570 Riccarton .... u. 504 66 — 570 Mid-Canty . .. R. 320 130 — 450 Temuka ... R. 404 95 — 499 Dunedin S. L. 006 204 13 823 Mataura .... R. 381 79 — 460