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1932 Northern Rhodesian general election

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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 Henderson 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]

References

  1. ^ a b c "News in Brief", The Times, 16 May 1932, p9, Issue 46134
  2. ^ "Northern Rhodesian Legislative Council", East Africa, 23 June 1932, p1055