Incidents Of The Polling

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27670, 28 May 1955, Page 7

Incidents Of The Polling

(Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, May 27. The name of three-year-old Anne Golding appeared by mistake on the electoral register for Clapham Common, a London suburb, but she exercised her prerogative anyway. She went to the polling booth and voted for Father Christmas.

Britain’s oldest citizens joined younger generations at the polls. Mrs Sarah Giles, 104-year-old Kentish voter, marked her ballot paper and said she hoped to vote again in another four years. Mr Edwin Stead, a 105-year-old Yorkshireman, also voted. Mr Geoffrey de Freitas, Parliamentary Secretary to the Home Office in the last Labour Government, was attacked by an angry crowd last night after his re-election as member for Lincoln. As he left the hall where the count had taken place, his car was boarded by crowds who threw missiles at him, breaking his glasses. The wife of Captain L. P. S. Orr, the sitting Conservative candidate for County Down, Northern Ireland, was out canvassing votes for her husband when five men attacked her, seized her car’s Union Jack and made off. Two Conservative Party women supporters cut short their holiday in drove and flew more than 1000 miles to reach their polling booth and vote.

Closed-circuit television projected the latest results to guests at London’s biggest election party at the Savoy Hotel.