A BY ELECTION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 139, 6 March 1908, Page 7

A BY ELECTION.

DKiONIST RETURNED. REFORM -AND COLONIAL PREFERENCE, ■ St TELEGJIArn-r— association— copvniom. j, • . i ■.i London, March- 5. - The by-election for- Hastings, owing to tho ' resigna'fjioii of Mr. William Harvey DuCros, . i resnjted as follows'.■+ 1 Mr. Arthur Du Cros, Unionist ... 4495 Mr. R ; Vernon Harcourt, .Liberal 3477 - ,i > ■Majority ... 1018. i -Mr. Du Cros is a son of the retiring mcm- - ■ hen He. attributes his -victory to his at-. .!<v.titu4e<oqj,the question'of tariff reform, par- , ticularly-colonial, preference. > . _ AT GENERAL- '" :Tbe,iij6ilpig : tlie; last . General Election - wao , 6sttollo\j'6:-r- . . . •W. IT. Du Cros (U.) 4378 . ,F. Freeman Thomop (Lib.) ... ... -89&» Majority •-.... ... ... 413 ' J ..REgpRD OF UNIONIST' SUCCESSES. J rThe> following record or - since 'tho ffeneral olectionslioTVo J/ou' /stendily the - rf title ins".l?eeii .flpwiiiß m .favou;; of the .Union-; ■ "''vist. .party. arid against the,. Liberal Govpni- • (The .increases and'decreases-.shown are in .' the majorities at by-elections as compared with, thoso-at the General' Election.) - > ■... . ;■ -i"A ; -;3-'^ !^ : .i i . February, , 27.—City of London,::. pinionist) - in- : crease,lo3t.. . . (. . ■ , ■ i March , 12— Basingstoke,- Unionist increase, 13!). March . SO.*—Leicester. Liberal decrease, 3GSI. May ;>]s.i-rDi)hyich,' Unionist-:increase,'.B22.,. July St.—Ho'lijun, Libej-al decrease, f9. • (Seat' gained.) >... Noyemb?': 28.-Iludiler.jfield, Liberal • decrease, 093. 7 i \

-' January'. 31.— North-East ' 'Derbyshire, Liberal . - decrease 1010. • l; ; - February: 18.—Banffshire, Liberal decrease, 191. - FebruaryV;2o.—South. Aberdeen,. Liberal • decrease; 4077. - February' 27. : -rßriEg:i (Seat gained.) ■ - -. j - Marcji' 23.—Hcxliani, ;Liberal : decrease,-.-.928;' V ' May-ill!—Stcipriey;' Unionist-increase, • 312.>■ -- >' i May Unionist increase, 4852;? " Julie 13.—Rutland, Unionist increase, 316. ; • July 6.—Jarrow, Labour returned for Liberal. • July 20—Cojue Valley, -Kociqlist. j-eturjied; for Liberal. , . 'August 1 2—N;W. Staffordshire, Lab. and: Lib. lqpiease, 231 , ''Aug'qst'."2B;Vl) a i'y■■ St.'','Bdij)iinds,Unionist in- . • increase,' 458. .August 28— Kirkdale, 'Ufiionift ■ increase, 78. November;o3o.—West':::jfiull,' -Liberal .''decrease; -. '20(1(1.-. ' ' > "i" • . 1803. -:s r;-;;V:'.--:. January 17.—Mid-Devon. (Seat gained.)- ■ " tr Febrnary 2.—Boss , (Hertfordshire). ; (Seat gamed.) , :February. 6.77-St.'.Austell .'(Cornwall). . .Liberal, ... returned unopposed. . :'- . February 9—Worcester, Unionist .increase, 180 February :14—South Leeds, 'Liberal decrease, '926 ; " increase,?; ->,