LABOR FARES BADLY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14800, 2 January 1919, Page 5

LABOR FARES BADLY.

, (Reuter's Telegram.) : TV, + « n vx LO:N:DON. Dec- 30. ltot tli« Coalition, party, would be vactonous -was a foregone conclusion, but nobody anticipated,-. itvwrould ; obtain --•* majority m the proportion of almost five U> one,uior *uch a complete rout of pacifists and woman candidates. Not merely .was no Coalitionkt Minister defeated, lyut Wiey were, .mostly re-elected . with majorities.,,- The' Laborites fared badly. They wiere expected to secure at least 100 seats, and though | th^actualreparesentation. is larger;•thin m the old Pwliament. those returned are generally distinguished for the soundness of their views on the war. Countess Markiewicz was the only wpman elected, and as the Sinn Fein:«Wir who:emerge. from.the election the *™ strongest partyr refuse to sit at Westminster, the House of Coniihons remains exclusively male. th© notables who forfeit their il5O deposit for failing? to seouite the necessary one-eighth of the votes polled o^Sf! yr °tt?f:\ Mesdames Strachey and^Martyn^an4 Miss Murray 'Messra , MoKinnon Wood, Pringle, aiid Austin Warisoni; :were also among the failures 'Qjie feature of the elections is that Coa-lition- and not Labor has gained most, from the fosses of Independent Liberals. t^TJie; -only d istrict. faithful -to the AsquitJuana was Derbyshire, whioli retuOTKedi onemberai f.or four out, of eiffhft seats. ": . ■-•'..■■ .

Coalition, officers claim that the two principal factors which contributed, to their traumph -w«re the votes of women and soldiers. The former made . the majority secure, and the soldiers' vote according to one official, came as a tidal wave an favor of Mv Lloyd George