FEATURES OF CONTEST
EIGHTY PER CENT. VOTE
FORFEIT OF DEPOSITS
Australian Press Association. LONDON, Ist June. Eighty per cent of the electors voted. The estimated cost to all parties is £2,200,000. Among the losers of deposits are twenty-one of the twenty-four Communists. A hundred and fifteen candidates forfeited their deposits, namely, 34 Labourites, 31 Liberals, 17 Conservatives, 21 Communists, and 12 others. Only three Communists avoided forfeiting their deposits. The Labour candidate in Abingoon, Berkshire, to save his deposit had to poll 3712J votes, and the lack of threequarters of a vote cost him £120. Mr. Thomas Gee, the "worker" candidate for Wednesbury, polled only 61, which was the smallest total anywhere. It is stated that the election cost the Liberal Party £800,000. At 10.30 last night, only seventeen seats were unaccounted for, namely, Eugby, five Scottish constituencies, and eleven University seats. The lastnamed will not be available until tomorrow, and the Scottish results possibly later.
LONDON, Ist June.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 127, 3 June 1929, Page 9
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159FEATURES OF CONTEST Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 127, 3 June 1929, Page 9
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