BRITISH LABOUR PARTY HOPE TO GAIN SEATS AT MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
(United Press Assn.— By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received October 26. 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, October 25. Great activity is developing in connection with the coming municipal election.* in London. The municipal elections are held once every three years, when all members of councils retire. In the other 343 cities and boroughs one-third of the councillors retire each year and elections are therefore held each year. The elections this year in these 343 cities and boroughs will be marked by a great effort by the Labour Party to achieve successes similar to those which they obtained in the recent General Election In last year's deletions the Labour Party gained 127 in the 1878 seats, which fall vacant in 131 of the principal towns. * Every other party received a set-back, « the Conservatives losing 70 seats, the Liberals 10 and T ndependents 37.—Brit- • ish Official Wireless.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18900, 26 October 1929, Page 11
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