Election Indications

Evening Star, Issue 18502, 8 December 1923, Page 3

Election Indications

*—s ' * Conservatives Heavily Defeated Liberal and Labor Gains Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyrighl.

LONpON, December 7. (Received December 8, at 9.20 a.m.)

RESULTS OF THE POLLING

THREE NOTABLE DEFEATS. SIR M. BARLOW, MR CHURCHILL, AND SIR A. MOND. LONDON, December 7. The results which have been received to date are as follow: LEICESTER WEST. Mr E. W. P. Lawrence (Lab.) ... 13,624 Mr Winston Churchill (Lib.) ... 9,256 Air Justone (Con.) 7,696 Last election : -Mr A. Hill (Lob.), 12,929 ; Mr J. F. Green (Nat. Lib.), 8,137; Dr G. E. Spiro (Lib.), 7,631. SALFORD SOUTH. Mr Toole (Lab.) 12,097 Sir Montague Barlow (Con.) 9,366 Mr Jones (Lib.) 4,851 At the last election Sir Montague Barlow (Minister of Labor in the Baldwin Government.) was returned unopposed. » WAKEFIELD. Mr Sherwood (Lab.) ... 7,956 Air H. G. Ellis (Con.) ... 7,345 Mr Lassen (Lib.) • 4 -649 Last, election: Air R. G. Ellis (Con.), 10,416; Air L. A. Bellamy (Lab.), 9,798. MANCHESTER EXCHANGE. Air Barclay (Lib.) 12,248 iSir E. E. Stockton (Con. Freetrader) 10,449 Last election : Sir E. F. Stockton (Con.), 13,919; Sir William Barton (Lib.), 10,148. LIVERPOOL EXCHANGE. Sir T.cslici Scott (Con.) ... Rh§sl All- Grogan (Irish candidate) ... 10,552 Last election: Sir L. Scott, (Con.), 15,650; Air J. Devlin .(Nat.), 12,514. AI'ANCIIESTEiI MOSS SIDE. Air T. R. Ackroyd (Lib.) 12,210 Mr G. B. Hurst (Con.) 9,097 East election : Air Hurst (Con.), ll,9o2; Ah- Ackroyd (Lib.), 6,743. BATH. Air Rafferty (Lfb.) 13,694 Mr T. Foxcrofb (Con.) 12,830 Last election: Air Foxcroft (Con.), 13,666; Air H. Spender (Lib.), 8,969; Air 11, 11. Elvin (Lab.), 4,849. MANCHESTER RUSHOLAIE. Air C. F. G. Alastcrman (Lib.) ... 10,901 Air J. H. Thorpe (Con.) 8,876 .Mr Paul (Lcib.) 5,566 Last election : Air Thorpe (Con.), 11,765 ; Air E. Ai. Sutton (Lib.), 6,421; Air A. E. Wood (Lab.), 6,397. AS HTON-UNDER-LYNE. Sir W. Dc Frece (Con.) 7,813 Mr Greenwood (Lib.) 7,574 Albs Wilkinson (Communist) ... 6,208 Last election: Sir W. De Frece (Con.), 12,0C6; Air T. W. Gillindcr (Lab.), 8,834. ACCRINGTON. Air Edwards (Lib.) ... 19,981 AlrO. K. Buxtoi\ (Lab.) , 16,795 Last election ; Air Buxton (Lab,), 16,462 ; Ah- E. Gray (Con.), 11,408; Mr 11. T. Baker (Lib.), 9,595. GREAT YARMOUTH. Air A. llarbord (Lib.) 11,116 Sir Alexander Horne (Con.) 8,492 Ah- Wrigley (Lab.) 2,138 Lost election : Air llarbord (Lib.), 9,856; Air G. Crookshank (Con.), 8,917; Air A. Whiting (Lab.), 2,574. SALFORD NORTH. Air Ben. Tillett (Lab.) 13,377 Ah- S. Finbnrgh (Con, Freetrader) 12.810 Last election: Mr Tillett (Lab.), 11,568; Mr Finbnrgh (Con,), 11,349 ; Air J. G. Jolly (Lab.), 4,660. MANCHESTER, BLACKEY DIVISION. Ah- P. Ai. Oliver (Lib.) 12,235 Air W. J. H. Briggs (Con. Freetrader) Last election: Mr Briggs (Con.), 9,023; Mr Oliver (Lib.), 6,219; Mr A. F. Town-, send (Lab.), 5,580. SWANSEA WEST. Sir Allred Mond was defeated. Last, election: Sir Alfred Mond f !Nat. Lib.), 9,278; Ah- W. A. S. Hewins (Goa.), 8,476; Mr W. Samuel (Lab.), 8,401. KEIGHLEY DIVISION. Mr Pnkington (Lib.), who was opposed by*Air H. B. Lcee-Smith (Lab.), was elected in Keighley Division, Yorkshire. Test election: Air Lces-Snuth (Lab.), 13,918; Mr W. A. Brigs (Lib.), 9,262; Air C.’ H. Foulds (Con.), 6,95 b. CHELTENHAM. At Cheltenham Sir J. Agg-Gardiner (Con.), who entered Parliament under Disraeli. was re-elected with a- greatly-reduced minority. ~ . ~ , Last election: Sir J. Agg-Gardner (Con.), 11,583; Mr C. Plaistowo (Lib.), 8,237. MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE BEATEN. MISS BONDFIELD WINS NORTHAMPTON. MR M'CURDY LOWEST ON POLL. MOTHERWELL REJECTS NEAYBOLD. LONDON, December 7. (Received December 8, at 10 a.m.) Air W. C. Bridgeman, Home Secretary (Oswestry), Lady Tcn-ington (Wycombe), Mr R. Macneil (Foreign Secretary), and Sir Robert Horne (Hiilhcad) were elected. Sir Donald Alaclean (Liberal) and the. Countess of Warwick '-'(Labor) wore beaten. Sir A. L. Stanley (Liberal) was beaten at Ivnutsford by ' a -Conßarvative (Briga-

dier-general Makins) by a majority of eighty. Admiral Sir Guy Gaunt (nn_ ex-Aus-tralian) had a narrow victory in Buckrose, with a majority of 214 over his Liberal opponent. Aylesbury results: Mr T. Keens (Liberal), 13,576; Sir-A. Burgoyno (Conservative), 13,504; Air Watkins (Labor), I, This is a Liberal gain. Sir John Simon was re-elected for Spen Valley, Northampton; Aliss Margaret Bondfield (Labor), 15,556; Air Collier (Conservative), 11,520; Mr C, A. •APCurdy (Liberal), 11,341. Sir Robert Sanders (Alinieter of Agriculture) was beaten at Bridgwater. Sir L. Worthington-Evans (PostmasterGeneral), Air R. Smillie (Labor), and Sir J. Nortoa-Griffiths (Conservative) wore elected. Mr Baldwin, Air Araery (First Lord of the Admiralty), both lire Chamberlains, and Air Ramsay MacDonald were elected. Tim Duchess of Atholl (Conservative), and Mr Frank Hodges (Labor) were elected. Ah- J. T. No who Id (Communist) was beaten for Alothenvell. Dr Macnamara’s majority at Camberwell was eighty in a tliree-cornerod tight. —A. and N.Z. Cable. (Received December 8, at 9.20 a.m.) Ah- Scurr (who was born-in Australia, a Laborite) gained the Alilo End Division of Stepney. Sir W. IT. Davison (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster) defeated Mr Frederick Guest. Ah- J. AI. Hogg (Liberal), Edinburgh, was elected. Airs Wintringham was re-elected for Louth. Air Sidney Webb (Labor, Seaham) and Airs Philipann (Berwick-on-Twced) wore re-elected. Air J. W. Molden (Liberal) was at the bottom of the poll in Islington West, which’ Labor pained in a, triangular fight. At South Shields ex-Senator Harney polled 22,012 votes, and Air N. Lowthcr (Labor) 15,717.—A. and N.Z. Cable. CONSERVATIVES STILL HOPING. LABOR SUCCESSES IN LONDON. LONDON, December 7, (Received December 8, at 1 a.m.) The succession of Liberal and Labor gains and Conservative losses continued until the early hours of the morning. It left Conservatives everywhere hoping that to-day’s later results will straighten out Air Baldwin’s majority. The Labor gains, especially in London, became impressive. Crowds in Labor , centres bailed the defeats of Sir Montague Barlow (Minister of Labor), Sir Alfred Aloud, and Air Churchill as signal victories. AIR A. HENDERSON BEATEN. TWO SONS ELECTED. LONDON, December 7. (Received December 8, at 1 a.m.) The success of two of Ah- Arthur Henderson’s sons, each gaining scats from Conservatives, consoled the father and the party for the loss of his Ne.wcastle scat. Mr Henderson’s case, curiously, is the same as it was in the 1922 election, when he lost Widnes. and had to wait till a by-election to secure Ids seat.—A. and N.Z. Cable. UNIONIST STALWART REJECTED. LONDON, December 7. (Received December 8, at 1 a.rn.) Sir Alontagno Barlow was strongly ah tacked by tho Laborilos on his dealings with the Labor -Ministry and unemployment. Wholly unexpected was tho defeat of Mr Reginald Hall, chief agent of tho Unionist Party. LESSENED CONSERVATIVE VOTES. LONDON, December 7. (Received Decembers, at 1 a.m.) ° There is evidence of widespread Conservative abstentions on a large scale, while there are some remarkable drops in tho I 'onservat ivo majorities, notably at Grimsby, from 9,499 to 1,618; at Wallasey, from 7,524 to 84-5; and at the Exchange, Liverpool, scat, from 3,056 to 229. Air Edwin Stockton, whom tho ‘ Morning Post ’ calls the most perverse and pronounced Conservative Freetrader, lost to a Liberal on a total poll of only 55 per cent, of the electorate. FIRST WO ALAN LABOR AIEAIBER. LONDON, December 7. (Received December 8, at 1 a.m.) Miss Susan Lawrence won Eastham North. Sho k the first woman Labor member. Seven women candidates yvere defeated. AIR LLOYD GEORGE’S CAUTION. LONDON, December 7. (Received December 8, at 1 a.m.) Air Lloyd George heard the results by listening in at his Surrey homo. Ha is satisfied so far; but he added ; “ We aro not out of the wood yet. As a matter of fact, the "votes in three-fifths of tho constituencies remain uncounted,—A. and N.Z. Cable. LABOR LEADER’S CONFIDENCE. LONDON, December 7. (Received December 8, at 1.15 a.m.) Air J. R. dynes, in commenting oaJtt®

Election for eleventh time, declared that the result indicated that the Labor Party before long will be not Hia Majesty’s Opposition, hut His Majesty’s Government. —Reuter. MR CHURCHILL. LONDON, December 7. (Received December 8, at 1.15 a.m.) Mr Churchill stated that whatever might be the consequences ho would never associate himself with the violent movement of the Left, nor of the extreme reaction of the Right. He said ho was certain from the “results that Protection was broken to pieces. MR ASQUITH. LONDON, December 7. (Received December 8, at 1 a.m.) Mr Asquith was loudly cheered. Ho stated that Paisley was the impregnable citadel of Liberalism. The Liberate throughout the country were routing both Protection and Socialism.—Reuter.'"

FEATURES OF THE POLLING.

CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATES’ MAJORITIES REDUCED. NORTH OP ENGLAND BOROUGHS FIRM FOR FEEETEADE. LONDON, December 6. A black pall of fog descended on Lon» don just when the electioneering revellers were beginning to assemble. ' All tho traffic was chaotic in a few minutes. The buses crawled along, piloted by their conductors, and followed by a flock of taxis. The crowds became shadowy figures and dispersed homewards. Tho returns opened with a Liberal gain at Manchester Exchange and a Labor gain at Wakefield. Two and a-half million listonere-in heard tho results, Mr Churchill's defeat by Mr Pethick Lawrence (husband of tho suffragette and author of the capital levy), which was announced at midnight, caused an immense sensation in Trafalgar Square and the London theatres, restaurants, and other places where tho results wore announced. Where the Conservatives hold the seals there has been, a big turnover of votes, their majorities beinfj reduced in some cases by 4.000; hut it must be remembered that the results in the Conservative strongholds in London and tho homo counties are not yet announced, though it is evident that the boroughs in tho North of England are more Freetrado than ever. . It is evident that Manchester still clings to ite traditional Cobdenism. Only six Liverpool divisions wore contested. Tho Liberals gained two of these (Wavortree and West Derby), despite the fact that huge majorities were recorded in those electorates for Conservatives a year ago. As the Conservatives axe unlikely to ■pain seats in the homo counties, and as they will probably lose a few in Scotland, it seems that Mr Baldwin’s majority is gone. None of the three parties will be able to carry on alone. A feature of the elections was the early polling by women, who mostly seemed the keenest to vote. There was heavy polling In the northern industrial constituencies, but generally it was marked by an absence of excitement. Mr Baldwin and tho other leaders of parties received enthusiastic ovations in their respective constituencies. The £l* teen contests in Glasgow wore very lively. Manchester is now represented by fire Liberals, four La-borites, and a Conservative, and Liverpool by eight Conscrviv 1 tivos, two Liberals, and an Independent, named O’Connor. Mr Asquith was elected at Paisley, dm feating the Conservative candidate, Mr Arthur Henderson (Libor) was foated at Newcastle-on-Tyne East by h Liberal, Sir R. Asko. ' Lady Astor was re-elooted at Plj* mouth. Colonel John Ward (Independent) wa« ro-oiooted at Stoke-on-Trent, Mr D, Kirkwood (Labor) was re-elected at Dumbarton. M r T. W. H. Inskip (Conservative, Solicitor-General, was re-elected at Bns* tol Central. . , _ Mr Hogbin (Liberal) gained Battersea North from tho' Parseo Communist, Mr S, Saklatvala. Mr Ammon (Labor) handsomely defeated Dame Helen Glynno-Vaughan (Conservative) at Camberwell North. Mr J. 11. Thomas and Sir Douglas Hogg wore re-elected. Both of Mr Arthur Henderson’s oono were elected. _ .. Sir Harvey Brittain was elected at Middlesex, Acton. Tho Conservatives pained tho Middleton and Prestwick seat, Lancashire and Sheffield Park. Sir W. Joynson-ii icks (Twickenham) and Sir Philip Lloyd-Orcamo (Hendon) were re-elected. A Laborite, Miss Susan Lawrence, gained East Ham North in a triangular contest with a Prohibitionist and Mr Scrvnigeour (Independent). Mr E. i). Morel (Labor) was re-elected for Dundee. Professor llewins came at the bottom of tho poll at Swansea, where a Labonto defeated Sir Alfred Moud after a idcount. , , , „ Dr T. J. -Macnamara was elected tor Northern Camberwell, defeating a Laborite after a recount A crowd broko tho polico cordon ot Ino Town Hall at Chelsea, and chased tho victorious Sir Samuel Hoaro to his coinmitteo rooms, whereas Mr Bertrand Russell, the defeated Laborite, was carried shoulder high. Tho Laborites, Messrs Sutton and J kikes, pained tho Sutton Division of Manchester and Warrington respectively from tho Conservatives and Liberals. Mr J. R. dynes woe re-elected for Platting Division, Manchester. Mr Ruthbono (Liberal) won the Wavert.rco Division, Liverpool, from Sir Harold Smith, a brother of Lord Birkenhead. Mr W. J. Tout (Labor) and Sir Edward Grigg (Liberal) were re-elected for Oldham. . , Mt Nonnau Angoll (Labor) was feated in Rogsendakv—Reuter. EX-NEW ZEALANDERS AS CANDIDATES. LONDON, December 7. Mr C. P. Trevelyan (Labor) was elected at Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central, defeating Mr F. M. B. Fisher (ConscrvaU Mr Percy Harris (Liberal) was elected at Bethnal* Green, South-west. Dr W. A. Chappie (Liberal) beat Genr er -il Chartcris at Dumfries'’ —A, and N-Z. Cable.

The position at present is; — LIBERAL AND LABOE combined ... 287 CONSERVATIVES ... 210 The state of parties at 4 o’clbck in the afternoon was CONSERVATIVES ... 222 LIBERALS ... 128 LABORITES ... 158 INDEPENDENTS , 8 GAINS AND LOSSES. The gains are : — CONSERVATIVES ... 11 LIBERALS ... 00 LABORITES ... 51 The losses are; CONSERVATIVES ... 80 LIBERALS ... 23 LABORITES ... ... 12 INDEPENDENTS ... ... ... ... ... 1 Received December 8, at 10.5 a.in —Reuter. ) The voting strength of the parties is as follows — CONSERVATIVES ••• 1,082,000 LIBERALS ... 1,509,000 LABOR 1,904,000