CANDIDATE LOSES DEPOSIT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 29, 15 November 1935, Page 5

CANDIDATE LOSES DEPOSIT.

CHANGES IN THE MAJORITIES.

SOME PROMINENT CONTESTANTS

United Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 15. Labour’s recapture of Farnworth was helped by the intervention of tlfc People’s Peace candidate, though at the cost of his deposit. The transfer of her affections from Eastham North to Stockton-on-Tees did not irestore Miss Busan Lawrence to the political stage. Gordon Campbell (commander of a war-time mystery ship, for which he received the Victoria Cross), who, in the 1931 campaign, said he would “give Labour a hell of a kick in the pants and defeated Mr Arthur Henderson, for Burnley, did not succeed this tune: Mr Potts, as expected, prevented a repetition of the Barnsley miracle when the National Liberals in the crisis won by a majority of 770. The Under-Secretary to the Home Office, Captain Ewan Wallace, had a majority of 20,000 at Hornsey, despite vote-splitting by the Liberals. 'A straight-out fight at Ashton-under-Lyne, instead of the previous foursided contest, enabled Labour to recapture the seat from the Conservatives with a majority of 11A. Despite dropping 8250 votes the Conservatives held Mr Ben Tillett’s old seat Salford North, likewise Salford South, with a fall of 6534. These are regarded as key seats, the retention of which is interpreted as a good Ministerial omen. „ The Under-Secretairy of State foi Air Sir Philip Sassoon, held Hythe, 10.000 short of his old majority. An Australian, William Greene (Conservative) was the first Dominion candidate to be returned, retaining AVoi Lancashire’s cricket captain, Eckersley a new candidate,' notwithstanding intrusion by a Liberal, held Manchester Exchange with a majority ot 5643, compared with the previous Conservative majority of 15,534.