Polls: Ahead
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have been won by the RPP agains 9 for the Justice Party and 2 fo the NAP.
The left wing parties receive very small votes. The Turkis Labour Party, closely identifie with the Moscow aligne Stalinists, which had 15 seat during the 1960s, received onl 18,000 votes, about 0.15% The Maoist Turkish Unit Party got 44,500, about 0.37% We have as yet no informatio on the other candidates fron workers parties, who because o the electoral law had to stand a independents.
The elections themselves wer marked by much less violenc than expected.
Enormous numbers of polic and soldiers were to be seen a the polling booths and some wer also protected by members of th RPP and left wing parties fron attacks expected from the fascists There was some fightin Continued Back Page, Col 1.