The Archive · 1937

GEN. R. MULCAHY FAILS RE-ELECTION

Dublin, July 3.

Mr. Eamon de Valera. President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, has been re-elected for Clare in the General Elections held on Thursday.

Other outstanding results so far announced show that Mr. Sean Mac-Entee, Minister of Finance, and Mr. Traynor, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, have been, returned for Dublin.

Mr. William Cosgrave, leader of the Opposition, who was Mr. de Valera's predecessor as President of the Executive Council, has been returned for Cork.

Gen, Richard Mulcahy, formerly Commander-in-Chief of the Free State Army, has been defeated in Dublin.

The elections, besides returning new Dail, will also give the country verdict on the draft Constitution, which provides for a change in the name of the Free State to Eire and for the substitution of the Governor-General by a president—Reuter.

The latest state of the parties Mr. de Valera's Party Mr. Cosgrave's Party

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