'Anti-black' U.K. vote
(N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright) ROCHDALE, Oct. 29.
The size of an anti-immi-gration vote in a Parliamentary by-election has w’orried community relations workers in Rochdale, a northern England industrial town with many Pakistani settlers.
A candidate campaigning to stop coloured immigration into Britain, Mr Jim Merrick, was bottom of the poll, but still collected 4074 votes in a town with little history of racial strife. His vote represented nearly 9 per cent of the poll. The victor, Mr Cyril Smith, a member of the minority Liberal Party, won with 19,296 votes—so 93 more than his nearest rival from the Labour Party and 11,236 more than the Conservative challenger. Mr Smith told reporters he was distressed by the extent of Mr Merrick’s vote and did not consider Rochdale’s educational and housing facilities overstretched by settlers.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33060, 30 October 1972, Page 15
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