IMPERIAL POLITICS
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright A UNIONIST VICTORY. LONDON, August 5. (Received August 6, at 9.7 a.m.) The Cockennouth election resulted as follows :—Sir J. Randies (Unionist), 4,953; Mr Guest (Liberal), 3.900. [The Cockennouth Division of Cumberland was rendered vacant by the death of Sir Wilfrid Lawson, the temperance reformer and Radical politician. The electorate is somewhat fickle in its political allegiance. In 1900 Sir J. S. Randies won the seat by 209 votes, and lost it in 1906 by 563. In 1885 the Conservative majority was 10, and in 1892 the Liberal majority 77L] ANOTHER VERSION. THROWING AWAY A SEAT. LONDON, Angust i ' (Received August 6, at IQJS a.m.) Th"e figures for the Cockennouth election were : Sir J. Randies (Unionist), 4,593; Mr Guest (Liberal), 3,903; Mr Smillie (Labor) 1,436.
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Evening Star, Issue 12884, 6 August 1906, Page 6
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