LANDSLIDE CONTINUES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17610, 28 October 1931, Page 11

LANDSLIDE CONTINUES

BRITISH LABOR DEBACLE CONSERVATIVES’ MANY GAINS EX-MINLST ERS DEFEATED (Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received Oct. 2S, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 27. With a dramatic flash came the announcement that Mr. Henderson was out. 11 is defeat was not unexpected, hut thoro was a surprise when the size of the Conservative majority, 8209, was known. The Liberal vote of 12.502 in 1929 must have gone solidly in favor of Rear- ; Admiral Campbell. The. defeat of the Leader of tho Opposition is the .severest* blow to the Lalioi ites. The defeat is j too sweeping to permit of his indisposi- ! tion counting as the reason. Air. I lender- J son. being a political iioina.il, has been rejected by many seats —Barnard Castle, East Ham, Widnes, Newcastle, and now Burnley. The Labor majority of 9358 at Barnsley melted in the face of the NationalLiberal attack, where there was a notable Government victory. A succession of Conservative gains followed. Labor lost" Wakefield, and Farnworth, Lancashire, held by Labor since 1922, turned over with a substantial majority. There was. a big swing at Accrington, where a Labor majority of 2226 was converted into a Conservative, majority of 12.5C0. It was not until 11.55 p.m. that the first Laborite was returned, Air. ■R. 0. Wallliead holding .Merthyr Tvdvil in a straight- fight against- the New Parfyitc. polling 1G.834. Presumably all the Liberal and Conservative votes went to the Laborite. Dr. Summerville Hastings suffered a terrific slump at Heading, the Conservative converting a deficiency of 852 into a. majority of 15.162. All the Labor veterans seemed lo In* Calling. Next came Sir Ben Turner, his majority of 6980 being tvansfornie 1 into a Conservative one of !• 1578. It was noticeable also that two-seal constituencies seemed when iliev changed to swing the same way, whereas in previous elections one party frequently captured one seat and another secured the second. Blnklnini ’s two seats swung over completely lo the Conservatives from Labor, one of those defeated - being .Miss Alary Hamilton, one of Labor’s women intellectuals. The Australian, Air. Alaiinne, under the National-Liberal banner, triumphed at Huddersfield with a smashing conversion of a Labor majority into his own majority of 27,022. Within a few minutes of Air. Henderson's crash came news of tho defeat of another Labor ex-member of Cabinet, Air Herbert Morrison, in a- straight light with a Conservative at Hackney. Another bombshell was when Air. Tom Shaw was defeated at Preston, despito his prestige ns Secretary of War. Thus thoro were two gains at. Preston. Tho next Labor ex-Cabinet member fo fall was Air. A. Greenwood. Minister of Hoallli, who was defeated at- Nelson and Colne in a straight light with a Conservative whose majority of 7684 compared ; with Mr. Greenwood’s majority of j ■10.297 in 1929. A notable gain was at Newport, Monmouthshire, where a Conservative, Air. j Clarry, who was defeated by a Laborite ! in 1929 with ;i majority of over 20CO. ! recovered the seat with a. majority of i 3591, . I The first minority victory was at Kirk- j dale, where a clergyman standing as a |

Protestant polled 7834, which gave t!u> : Conservative a victory by 4772 over the retiring Laborite. Tho state of the parties at midnight was as follows: Government: Conservatives .. .. So Nat. Laboriles .. .. 0 Nat. Liberals . . . . 17 Independents .. .. I Total .. .. .IU3 Opposition: Labor .. .. .. !) Liberal .. .. .. 1 Total .. .. Tho gains and losses of the parties were as follows: — Gains Losses Conservatives .. 18 0 Nat. Liberals .. 17 0 Nat. Independents ..I 0 Labor .. .. .. 0 22 Liberals .. .. 0 13 Others .. .. . . 0 1 PRESTON (Two Scats) W. Ah Kirkpatrick (Con.) ... 46,276 A. G. Alorcing (Con.)' 45,843"‘Tom Shaw (Lab.) 25.710 ]•:. Porter (Lab.) 24,660 Two Conservative gains. 1929: Lab.. 37,705 and 51.277; Con.. 29.116 and 27,754; Iml., 2111. WALTON-LIVERPOOL *R. Purbrick (Aus., Con.) ... 31,335 F. A. P. Rowe (Lab.) ... 11,183 No change. 1929: Con., 16,623; Lab.. 16,385; Lib., 5857. G LOUCESTKR Boyce (Con.) 19.201 C. Fox (Lab.) ... 9,233 No change. 1929/Con., 11,041; Lab.. 10.548; Lii)., 6589. NELSON AND COLNE Linton Thorp (Con.) 28,747 *Arthwr Greenwood 21.063 A Conservative gain. 1929: Lab., • 28,533; Con., 18,236. j BATLEY AND MOBLEY I W. i). Wills (Con.) 26,378 \ *Sir Bon Turner (Lab.) 16,700 Conservative gain, 1929: Lab., 24.621; ■ Con., 17.641. ! BLACKPOOL j ■"Capl. 0. C. Erskine Bolsl (Con.) 53,010 I Edgar Wallace (Lib.) ... 10,524 1 No change. 1929: Con.. 32.912; Lib., 25.374; Lab,, 12.0-19. <