MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

Evening Star, Issue 20316, 26 October 1929, Page 15

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

ACTIVITY IN BRITAIN LABOURS BID FOR VICTORY. (Bribih C'ificial Wireless.) Prow* Association -By Telegraph—Copyright, RIGBY, Oc:cber 25. (Received October 213 at noon.) Great acthity is developing i.o connection with tne coming municipal elections in Lon it.r.. jhe municipal c fictions are held ome ;p thiec years, w ..en all members o. councils retire. In the other 343 cities and boroughs one-third of the councilors retire each year and the elections are therefore held oacn year. The elections this year in these ‘-;43 cities and boroughs will be inaiked by a great effort on the part of the Labour thirty to achieve the successes similar to those ■which it obtained m the recent general election, in Jaao year’s o.ections the Labour Parly gained 127 seats in tho 1,878 seats, which fell vacant in Ibi of tho principal towns. Every other party received a setback, the Conservatives losing seventy seats, Liberals nineteen, and tho independents thirty-seven.