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'''General elections''' were held in [[Northern Rhodesia]] on 16 July 1932.<ref name=TT>"News in Brief", ''The Times'', 16 May 1932, p9, Issue 46134</ref> Of the seven elected seats in the Legislative Council, four had only one candidate, who was elected unopposed; [[Herbert Goodhart]] in the Eastern constituency, John Brown in Midlands, Chad Norris in [[Kabwe Central|Northern]] and |
'''General elections''' were held in [[Northern Rhodesia]] on 16 July 1932.<ref name=TT>"News in Brief", ''The Times'', 16 May 1932, p9, Issue 46134</ref> Of the seven elected seats in the Legislative Council, four had only one candidate, who was elected unopposed; [[Herbert Goodhart]] in the Eastern constituency, John Brown in Midlands, Chad Norris in [[Kabwe Central|Northern]] and [[Thomas Murray (Northern Rhodesian politician)|Thomas Murray]] in Southern.<ref name=TT/> The only contested seats were the two in [[Livingstone, Zambia|Livingstone]] and the one in [[Ndola]].<ref name=TT/> |
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Revision as of 22:55, 25 February 2018
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General elections were held in Northern Rhodesia on 16 July 1932.[1] Of the seven elected seats in the Legislative Council, four had only one candidate, who was elected unopposed; Herbert Goodhart in the Eastern constituency, John Brown in Midlands, Chad Norris in Northern and Thomas Murray in Southern.[1] The only contested seats were the two in Livingstone and the one in Ndola.[1]
Campaign
In Ndola incumbent member Kennedy Harris, a businessman, was challenged by Herbert Walsh, a trade unionist. In the two-member Livingstone and Western constituency, incumbents Leopold Moore (owner of Northern Rhodesia's only newspaper, The Livingstone Mail) and F H Lowe (an accountant and mayor of Livingstone) were challenged by former Livingstone mayor C S Knight and Deputy mayor F D Law.[2]