BRITISH ELECTIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 273, 17 November 1922, Page 5

BRITISH ELECTIONS.

. CONSERVATIVE WIN. MAJORITY OVER ALL OTHERS, j 92 WITH 21 TO COME. LABOUR THE SECOND PARTY.j 132 SEATS SO FAR. j I WINSTON CHUKCKILL BEATEN. A. HENDERSON DISPLACED. (By Cable.— Press Association.—Copyright.) (Rc-elred 1.30 p.m.i LONDON", November 16. The state of the parlies is now :-•-- Conservatives 343 Liberals !A?quitliian) oO National Liberals i.Lloyd Georgian) -t7 Labour 13-2 Various 13 The Conservatives thus have a clear majority over all the other parties combined of 02, with 21 seats to come. The latest estimates of party gains ana losses are: — Gains. Losses. Liberals 14 4 Conservatives 7 27 National Liberals .. -'l 27 Labour 34 4 j Independents 5 0 Compared with the 1918 elections the polling in all the constituencies was enormously heavy. Mr. Winston Churchill was defeated at Dundee. The Labourite candidate beat Sir Donald Mac Lean. Leader of the Independent Liberals, at Peebles. Sir Alfred Butt beat J. W. Molden for the Balham Division of Wandsworth by 9195. Lieut-Col. Sir J. Norton Griffiths was re-elected for Wandsworth Central with an enhanced majority over the Labourite. Sir. Stanley Baldwin. Chancellor of the Exchequer, retained the Bewdley Division of Worcester by a majority of 5443 orer the. Liberal candidate. Lord Robert Cecil retained his seat by a majority of 5075 over the Labourite at Hitchin. Mr."W. C. Bridgman, Home Secretary, «as re-elected for Oswestery. Mrs. Winteringham beat Mr. Hutching* for Louth. Bir Hamar Greenwood, ex-Chief Secretary of Ireland, has been defeated. Mr. Austen Chamberlain. ex-Leader of the House of Commons, beat the Labourite candidate for Birmingliani West hy SOD votes. Colonel L. C. M. S. Amery. First Lord of the Admiralty, was re-e:ected for the SpsrSbrook Division or Birmingham. Lieut.-Colonel Sir R. A. Sanders, President of the Board of Agriculture, was elected for the Bridgewater Division of Somerset. Sir 'F. 'Newton Moore, ex-Agent - Geaeral for Westralia, was elected for Islington North, the voting being: Sir F. Ofcwton Moore 13,520, Miss Tuberville (labour) 7993, Sargeant (Liberal) 7256. ' Mr. J. H. Thomas, the Labour Leader, was elected. Mr. B. S. Montagu, ex-Secretary for India, waa defeated tor Cambridgeshire. The liberal candidate defeated Sir A. Qriffith-Boscawen, Minister of Health, for Taunton. Mr. A. C. McCurdy, ex-Secretary to the Treasury, was re-elected for Northampton. Mr. "Clayton (Conservative) defeated Mr. Arthur Henderson for Widnes by 14,670 to 12,897. This was a great surprise in a straight-out fight. Viscount Ednam, Conservative, was re-elected for Hornsey. Sir M. Conway and Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, ex-President of the Board of Education, retained seats for the combined Universities of Durham. Manchester, Liverpool. Lseds, Sheffield, Birmingham, and Bristol, Sir M. Conway leading Mr. Fisber by a few votes. Sir L. Worthington Evans, ex-Minis-ter of War, was re-elected for Coltkester. Major-General Sir John Seely and Mr. P. G. Kellaway, ex-Pcetmaster-General, were both rejected. Commander Cecil Burney was elected . "or Uxbridge. Mr. F. 'S. Jackson, the cricketer, was re-elected for Howdenshire.. Sir John Simo.i «as elected for Spen iVifley. ' At Durham, Mr. -T. Ritson (Labour) •est Major J. W. Hills, Financial Sectary to the Treasury, by 2672 votes. Mr. Ben TiHet escaped defeat at *«rth Salford by 10 votes. Colonel Philip Richardson tne noted ™*man, won Chcrtsey for the Conservative*. "Mr- A. Harae-r was elected for South MieMs, where "Mr. Havclock Wilson, eecretary of the Seaman'j Federation, I *»a at tbe bottom of the poll. I lie counting of tbe county votes only w gan this morning. •t^j 0 " 8 the unclassified returns three 3?JL*S Co -operators. aud these may be "gWaed as Labourite successes. '' t ■