LONDONDERRY BY-ELECTION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10683, 1 February 1913, Page 6

LONDONDERRY BY-ELEC-TION.

GREAT NATIONALIST VICTORY. ULSTER'S REPRESENTATION. HOME RULERS 17, UNIONISTS 16. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received February 1, 10-a.m.) LONDON, January 31. Tho election to fill the vacancy for Londonderry City, caused by the succession to the peerage of the sitting Conservative mfember, the Marquis of Hamilton, resulted as follows: Mr Hogg (Nationalist) . # ■ 2699 Colonel Pakenham (Conservative) 2642

Home Rule majority . . 57 The representation of Ulster in the House of Commons now consists of seventeen Home Rulers and sixteen Unionists. GREAT EXCITEMENT. Tliers was great excitement in Derry, with much bottle-throwing and firing of revolvers. THE NEW MEMBER. Mr Hogg is one of thirteen Protectant Home Rulers in Londonderry, aged seventy-three. He only made two short speeches. Ninety-eight per cent of the voters polled. (Londonderry City has been long conspicuous for tho closeness of its political duels. In 1886, after the great Home Rule split, the city chose, by a majority of a single vote, the Nationalist candidate, tho late Mr Justin M'Cartliy, who defeated the Conservative candidate, Sir C. E. Lewis, by 1782 votes to 1781. At tho general election held six years later, when Mr Gladstone was successful at the polls, the Irish leader was displaced by the Conservative nominee, Mr J. Ross, who polled 1982 votes against 1954 cast for the Nationalist candidate. Three years later, however, Mr M'Cartliy, having meanwhile found another seat, tho City reverted to the Nationalist party, Mr E. F. V."Knox defeating Mr Ross by 2033 votes to 1954. At the khaki election, "which took plaoe in October, 1900, the Conservative candidate, the Marquis of Hamilton, defeated Count Moore, who stood in the Home Rule interest, by 2361 votes to 2291. Three years later the Marquis of Hamilton sought re-election, and was returned without opposition, and the same conditions attended the .general election of 1906. In January 1910, Lord J Hamilton succeeded in holding- the seat for the Conservative party,. defeating Mr S. Leslie, the Nationalist candidate, by 57 votes, polling respectively 2437 and 2378. At the second general election held in that year the. Marquis of Hamilton improved his position slightly, polling 2415 against 2310 cast for his Nationalist opponent, Mr Leslie, who it may be mentioned is a cousin of the Right Honourable Winston Churchill, First Lord of tho Admiralty.) '