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Can some with access to books.google.co.uk, Oxford Scholarship Online, or another way; please check chapter 46 of Elections in Africa: A Data Handbook by Dieter Nohlen, Bernard Thibaut, and Michael Krennerich (1999), Oxford Univ. Press, Print ISBN-13: 9780198296454, doi:10.1093/0198296452.001.0001 for the number of seats and votes per party for the 1915 South African general election?
According to our article, sourced to Nohlen et al., the Unionist Party for instance won 39 seats with 49917 votes.
However the online and free-to-read (PDF) source used in another article here on WP: PDF page 5, volume page 75 of All splendid, but horrible: The Politics of South Africa's Second "Little Bit" and the War on the Western Front, 1915-1918 by Van der Waag (2012) Scientia Militaria: South African Journal of Military Studies, doi:10.5787/40-3-1040 which cites Parlementêre verkiesings in Suid-Afrika by B.M. Schoeman (1977) Aktuele Publikasies ISBN-13: 978-0620023689; states the the Unionist Party for instance won 40 seats with 48034 votes.
Also, any ideas on which source is better for theses stats? Oxford Univ. Press, or the local Scientia Militaria (which has a typo right in the table header: "Vvotes")? -- Jeandré, 2022-05-07t12:07z (Or of course better sources that are online and free to read. -- Jeandré, 2022-05-07t12:28z)
John Poulson, architect and crook, was excused service in the Second World War on medical grounds, and was released early from prison in 1977, following a campaign by Lord Longford, on grounds of ill-health. He died a mere 15 years later at the tragically young age of 82. So - what was wrong with his health, or did he just bribe his way out as he did with everything else in life? (I should make it clear I don't suspect Longford of corruption, just his usual well-meaning idiocy). Thank you, DuncanHill (talk) 23:22, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
During the Spanish Civil War, was the Spanish working class split at all between the Republicans and Nationalists or were they almost all Republican in nature? 777burger user talk contribs 23:50, 7 May 2022 (UTC)