LABOUR HOLDS BALANCE
IRISH COUNTY ELECTIONS LATEST STATE OF PARTIES LONDON, July 1. Except the Cork election, the count is complete. Labour can be grouped with Pi anna Fail, but Fine Gael can rely ori only two-thirds of the Independents. hence Labour holds the balance in the definite stalemate. Ficnna Fail .. .. .. 707 Labour ~ .. 184 Fino Gael 575 Independents 351
FIGURES REVIEWED AIR COSGRAVE’S COMMENT DUBLIN, July 1. Mr Cosgrave, reviewing the local Government elections, said that Fianna Fail and Labour held at present 700 scats and the other parties 742, indi?ating that the de Valera supporters were not only going down, but had lost their majority, yet they had a perfect machine and ten years experi‘Bcc, “while wc have not a completely ?fficient electoral machine. Fianna Pail’s lack of a national spirit and its •'xtrcino partisanship have discredited I.” ______
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 155, 3 July 1934, Page 7
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