GENERAL ELECTION.
MR. BALDWIN'S PREDICTION.
CLEAR MAJORITY EXPECTED.
Times Ciibie. LONDON, April 19. The prediction by the Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, to tho'Conservative Party agents in his speech at Drury Lane Theatro that tho Conservatives would be returned to power by tho same majority us Disraeli had in 1874, is, as the Times points out, the first official estimate of his party's general election prospects.
In 1874 tho Commons consisted of 652 members, of whom 352 were Conservatives, 242 Liberals, and 58 Nationalists (Irish). Disraeli therefore had a clear majority over all parties of 52. Mr. Baldwin, adds tho Times, thus ranged himself with those Conservatives who believe that the party will not have less than 330 members out of. 615 in the new Parliament. Or in other words, Mr. Baldwin is prepared to see his party lose 70 or 80 seats.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20236, 22 April 1929, Page 11
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