ANALYSIS OF NOMINATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 111, 6 November 1935, Page 9

ANALYSIS OF NOMINATIONS

(British Official Wireless.)

(Keceived November 6, 11.30 a.m.)

RUGBY, November 5.

The only constituency for which nominations have yet to be made is the English Combined Universities, returning two members. For contested seats the opposition parties in the aggregate have 760 candidates in the field. Labour is represented by 552 of these, the Liberals 154, the Independent Labour Party 16, and Independents 36. Government supporters, totalling 585, include 511 Conservatives, 44 Liberal National, 19 National Labour, 9 National, and 2 others. Woman candidates number 65, and in two constituencies there is no male candidate. Only two Communists have been nominated, as compared with 25 at last election. Three supporters of Major Douglas's "Social Credit" plan have received nomination. The seat of th? Speaker of the House of Commons, the only member of the House who in the past has by virtue of his office been accorded an unopposed return, is contested by a Labour candidate, Mr. Oliver Baldwin, son of the Prime Minister, is the opposition Labour candidate for Paisley. The son of the former Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, and a son and daughter of a former Prime Minister, Mr. Lloyd George are seeking seats. Sons of Mr. Winston Churchill, Sir, Stafford Cripps, and Mr. J. H. Thomas are also in the contest, and one member of the late Parliament, Mr. Isaac Foot (Liberal) has three sons among the candidates.

Among Labour members of the 1929 Parliament who lost their seats in the 1931 election and who are now seeking re-election are eleven members of the last Labour Cabinet. Of nineteen Conservative women candidates eleven were members of the last Parliament.

With only eight days left before polling day, the General Election campaign is now in full swing. In all London constituencies extensions of polling hours from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., as allowed under the electoral law, have been granted.