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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1953
Page
3
Off year elections reflect Democratic gains nationwide. Stevenson comments praise the party’s constructive record while GOP leaders concede trouble and fear shifts in public sentiment. Governors from Oklahoma to Texas interpret results as Democratic momentum and potential gains in Congress.
Reports from 181 polling places show local issues dominated races. Eisenhower urged GOP wins as Virginia's Dalton visited the White House and Eisenhower posed with Troast. Mayors’ races varied with Democratic gains in some and Republican gains in others. Tennessee backed a constitutional amendment. New Jersey approved bingo and raffles.
Philadelphia sees a GOP surge as Wright and Ervin win Superior Court races while Democrats gain local mayoralties in Pittsburgh and Beratic ton. With 7,097 precincts reporting, Wright leads 1,227,501 and Ervin 1,180,180, challenging Democratic rivals Hook and Shelly amid a shifting Pennsylvania political landscape.
Republican candidates won eight of fourteen Cook County judicial contests in Chicago on Tuesday, an upset in a Democratic stronghold. The GOP claimed seven Superior Court seats and the Circuit Court race, while Democrats took the remaining six in the Superior Court races.
Associated Press election brief reports New Jersey chose Democrat Robert B. Meyner as governor ending Republican control of the statehouse. Paul L. Troast was the GOP nominee. Harrison A. Williams Jr. narrowly defeated GOP George F. Hetfield in the Sixth District House race. New York City elected Democrat Robert F. Wagner Jr. mayor, defeating Republican Harold Riegelman and Liberal Rudolph Halley, while incumbent Vincent Impellittieri lost in the Democratic primary. Republicans held or gained in several cities including Little Rock Waterbury and Syracuse with mixed results across the nation.
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