VICTORIAN ELECTIONS.
GOVERNMENT MAJORITY ASSURED. (Received Friday, 11.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. In connection with the elections a Government majority is assured, but the results of the preferential voting are too indefinite to gauge the position of the parties. Mr Mackinnon, assistant Minister for Lands and ex-Direetor of Recruiting, was defeated by Mr Parker (Labour), a returned soldier. Mr Mackinnon has represented Praliran for 21 3 r ears. One newspaper forecasts the state of parties as follows: Ministerialists 33 Labour 21 Farmers 21 Independent 1
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14241, 22 October 1920, Page 5
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