CANDIDATES SELECTED

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 126, 24 November 1923, Page 7

CANDIDATES SELECTED

PUBVIY OF ELECTORATES.

LONDON, 23rd November.

The three parties have now selected the majority of their champions for the 615 seats. The Conservatives are contesting 550 seats, the Liberals 460 (including 70 but of 81 divisions in the home counties), and Labour 412. Twenty of the Labour candidates are women.

.The Independent Labour Party ;:hasissue.d._j an 'appeal for ;£35;000 to-finance' 75 out of the 412 Labour candidates, though the membership of the party is only 31,760.

,Ther.e are numerous local arrangements^ in" different, parts of the country, designed to avoid triangular contests^ Thus, .Mr. Arthur Henderson, speaking at Newcastle, complained that no Liberal candidate was standing for Central Newcastle, ;and no Conservative at West oi\ East Newcastle. It looked like an unholy alliance to defeat Labour. On the contrary, owing to the Liberals, at Manchester agreeing not to contest Mr. J. R. Clynes's seat, a series of three-cor-nered contests in Manchester has been avoided, the exception being! Rusholme, where a Communist has.been nominated.

Unless,a way out .of the difficulty it found, there are likely to be "eight triangular contests at Glasgow. . A spell of bitter, wintry weather ii Pinking electioneering diffioulfc in the country distiigta. There are heavy miowotoi'ins in many parts, of the coun. try, with 12 degrees of frost at Aldershot and 16 at Glasgow. '" <