POLITICAL ARENA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22259, 6 November 1935, Page 14

POLITICAL ARENA

BRITISH ELECTION /PARTIES' CANDIDATES TOTAL OF 1315 STANDING 38 UNOPPOSED RETURNS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright British Wireless RUGBY, Nov. 4 For tho general election to bo held on November 14 about 1316 candidates were nominated to-day for the 615 seats in the House of Commons, of whom 582 are supporters of the National Government, including 512 Conservatives, 44 National Liberals, 20 National Labour and six others. IJnopposecl returns, which number 38, inplude the Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, and the President of tho Board of Trade, Mr. Walter Puinciman, and Sir Alan Anderson. As a result of tho unopposed returns the .s'tate of the parties in tho now House of Commons to dato is as follows: —• Conservatives . . . « . . 22 National Liberals .... 3 Labour Li Tho ,13 Labour candidates represent mainly Welsh constituencies and in 1931 had largo majorities, soino having been unopposed. Sir Ronald Ross (Conservative —• Londonderry) was unexpectedly returned unopposed owing to the breakdown of a motor-car, causing his intend od opponent to arrive breathless when nominations, had just closed. Labour candidates total 552 and Liberals 154. Major C. It. Attleo and Mr. /Lloyd George havo Conservative opponents. Sir Herbert Samuel is opposed by a Conservative and a Labour eandidato, a woman, Mr. Churchill by a Liberal aud a Labour aspirant. Women candidates total 65. Two women will have a straight-out fight for Wallsend, Miss Irene Ward, Conservative, and Miss Margarot Bondfield, formerly Minister of Labour in tho Labour Government. On tho figures cabled tho following table of candidates, which includes those returned unopposed, is compiled : Government Supporters— Cofiservatives . . . . 512 National Liberals . . 44 National Labour . . 20 Others 6 —582 Labour >552 Liberals 154 Others 27 1315 At the general election in 1931 there were 1292 candidates, as follows: — Government Supporters— Conservatives . . . . 520 National Liberals . . 41 Nationalists 3 National Labour .. 20—584 Labour 515 Liberals 112 Others . . 81 v .... ,1292 HOWLED DOWN COLONIAL SECRETARY THE WORKSOP MEETING LONDON, Nov. 4 Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, Colonial Secretary, was howled down at Worksop, Nottinghamshire, and was denied a hearing, although' for an hour ho laced a crowd of electors who shouted "Traitor" and sang the "Red Flag." LABOUR ALLEGATION CONSERVATIVES DIVIDED LONDON. Nov. 4 In the course of a broadcast speech Mr. Arthur Greenwood, a former Labour Minister of Health, denied that the members of his party wore divided. On the'contrary, he said, the Government leaders were disrupted, Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Eden were talking poace, .while Mr. Winston Churchill —"National Swashbuckler No. 1" — aimed ,'at an Empire armed to the teeth, and Mr. L. S. Amory was at tho bead of a group eager to retire to "Cowards' Castle."