GENERAL ELECTION

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXIV, Issue 8847, 26 November 1935, Page 2

GENERAL ELECTION

RECORD NUMBER OF CANDIDATES CONTESTS FOR ALL SEATS ' i THE LIQUOR QUESTION New Zealand’s 25th Parliament—apart from the four Maori seats, for > which there are 19 candidates and the selection will be made to-day—-will be elected to-morrow (Wednesday) and with the record number of 246 office-seekers in the field for the 76 European seats the final results will doubtless be rather later in coming to hand than at previous elections. The grouping of parties (including the Maori seats) will be as follows: — Nationalist (Government) .. 72 Independent Nationalist .... 4 Labour 72 ' Democrat 52 Independent Liberal . • • 5 Communist • 4 Country Party 4 Ratana 3 Liberal-Labour 2 Independent Labour 1 Independent Liberal 1 National Liberal 1 Independent Radical 1 Independent Socialist -1 National United 1 Independent Country Party . 1 Independent Labour-Liberal 1 Commonwealth Land Party . . 1 Unspecified 7 Total 365 When the 24 th Parliament was dissolved a few dayfc kgb the total stood at 79, due to the death recently of Mr J. Connolly, Government member for Mid-Canterbury, the state of the parties in the House of Representatives being as under: — - Coalition Party 45 Labour Party 24 Democrat Party 2 Country Party ....... I Independents 6 Mr Speaker I