Labour’s Sweeping Victory

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXIV, Issue 8848, 28 November 1935, Page 2

Labour’s Sweeping Victory

STATE OF THE PARTIES

Labour - - - 52 Nationalists 20 Independent - 7 Country Party - 1 Total 80

NATIONALISTS OVERWHELMED GAIN OF TWENTY-EIGHT SEATS THREE MINISTERS DEFEATED New Zealand’s twenty-fifth Parliament was elected yesterday and few would have expressed surprise at the close of the poll to find that the strength of the National Government had been curtailed, but it is safe to say that not even the most , sanguine supporters, of the Labour Party anticipated such an overwhelming defeat as that inflicted on the Coalitionists. According to the final returns announced last night, Labour, which held 24 seats' when the twenty-fourth Parliament was dissolved a few days ago, has carried the total to 52, an increase of 28, while the Coalition Party, which started out four years ago with 51 seats and still held 45 with the dissolution, lost no fewer than 25. The result clearly indicates that the country desired a change.