SEAT RETAINED
LABOUR WINS WIGAN BY-ELECTION
Rec. 10 p.m. LONDON, Mar 5. The Wigan by-election resulted:— R. W. Williams (Labour) .. 28,941 H Dowling (Conservative) .. Wbb T. Rowlandson (Communist) .. 1,647 O. L. Roberts (“King’s Cavalier ”) 932
Messrs Rowlandson and Roberts forfeited their deposits. Of the total electorate, 81.42 per cent, voted. The vacancy was caused by the death ot Mr W. Foster.
At the last general election the result was: Foster (Labour), 31,392; E. C. Hul-bert-Powell (Conservative), 14,666.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26713, 6 March 1948, Page 8
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