General elections were held in

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on 16 July 1932."News in Brief", ''The Times'', 16 May 1932, p9, Issue 46134 Of the seven elected seats in the Legislative Council, four had only one candidate, who was elected unopposed; Herbert Goodhart in the Eastern constituency,

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in Midlands, Chad Norris in

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and Thomas Henderson Murray in Southern. The only contested seats were the two in

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and the one in Ndola.

Electoral system

The seven elected members of the Legislative Council were elected from six constituencies; five constituencies returned a single member, whilst Livingstone and Western returned two.''Official Verbatim Report of the Debates of the Fifth Session (Resumed) of the Ninth Legislative Council'', Legislative Council of Northern Rhodesia, p20 There were a total of 2,565 registered voters.

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

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(an accountant and mayor of Livingstone) were challenged by former Livingstone mayor Charles Knight and Deputy mayor F.D. Law."Northern Rhodesian Legislative Council", ''East Africa'', 23 June 1932, p1055

Results

References

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