MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
PROGRESS REPORTS OF BRITISH CONTESTS. SOCIALISTS HAVE HEAVIEST GAINS. COAIAIUNTSTs” - TURNED DOWN. United Pres* Assn, by E2. iTel. Copyrlent (United Service.) (Received Nov. 2, 7.15, p.ru.i LONDON, Nov. 2The second progress report- of the municipal elections in 300 cities and boroughs invEngland and Wales show many Labor gams, mainly from tho Conservatives, with a triple success in the Home Secretary’s constituency, where Labor gained- its initial representation. Details of the gains and losses are as follows: Conservatives—3 gains, 23 losses. Liberals.—No gains, 5 losses. Labor.—4o gams, 6 losses. Independents.—B gains. 17 losses. Nov. 2, 8 p.m.) LONDON. Nov. 1.
The latest gams and losses in connection with the London municipal contest are: Reformers 1 gain 34 losses; Labor 31 gains 1 loss; Independent 6 gains 4 losses.; Progressives I gain 0 loss. An the provinces the Conservatives had 13 gams 71 losses; Labor 119 gains,. 18 losses; Liberals II gains 24 losses: Independents 10 gains 40 losses. The feature of the elections is the rejection or the Communists, only twenty-seven votes being recorded for a. candidate at Bradford, 32 at Blackburn, and 110 at Wolverhampton. The Socialist gains are mostly in industrial centres-. The biggest success was in Liverpool, where there have been eleven gains,' yet the Laborites have secured, com frol of only one council. Swindon. Air. Ccrbey, Labor Alayor of Salford, who refused to wear a top hat in his year of office or attend church on Alayor’s Sunday, was defeated by one hundred votes. Six unemployed candidates for Southwark secured only a total of 252 votes-.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10734, 3 November 1928, Page 5
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261MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10734, 3 November 1928, Page 5
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