OTHER RESULTS.
SIR HAMAR GREENWOOD DEFEATED. SCOTTISH LORD ADVOCATE BEATEN. By Telegraph - Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. t able Association. (Received November 17. 9.1,3 a.m.) LONDON. November I<>. Mr Austen Cliauiberluin beat the Labour candidate. for Birmingham West by 0000 votes.
Lt.-Colonel Amerv was re-elected foi the SparkbrooU Division u! Binning ham. Colonel Sanders was re-elected foi the Bridgewater Division of Somerset Major-General sir .Newton Moon was re-elected i'or Islington North. Mr ( • A M‘Curdy (Co.-Lib.) was re elected for Northampton. Tin* lat hour candidate beat Sir Don aid Mac Lean at Peebles. Sir Alfred Butt beat Air J. W. Mol den for the Ikilham Division of Wandsworth 11 v 9195. j A.-Colonel Sir J. Norton Griffith* was re-elected for Wandsworth Centra with an enhanced majority ovei Da hour.
Sir Hamar (• roonwood has hcen do foatod. T'ho Rieht S. Baldwin. Cbanceli lor of tin* I’’vch('(jiicr. retained the 1 Dewdloy Division <>f Worcester by a | majority of 0-143 over the Liberal canj didate. Lord Robert Cecil retained his seat by a majority of 0070 over the Labour candidate at I fitchew. Sir \Y < lSridgoniart -was re-elected , ,ir -Osvv "‘si ry
Mr Dudgeon 'T. i 1 >er.'i 1) beat M • (. o'. \\> 'Hi. '■Vt-ltisli l.ord Atlvociiio fo r {Jlovvav. i
Dr Chappie «lof»*.«tckl Mr KenswirA (Conservative) for Dumfrieshire In The Hon \V. Ormshy-Gore retaine Stafford by a majority of 3338 ovei Labour. Alajor Astor heat Air Poison foi Dover by 10.000 votes. Air Xewboid. a Communist. \vn elected tor the Alot.herwelJ Division o' Lanark, 'where two I-iberals\ split the vote. Mr Neville Chamberlain retained th< Lady wood Division of Birminglian with a reduced majority against tlic Labour candidate.
Mrs Wintri ogham beat Mr Hutchings for Louth BEFORE THE BATTLE. Iho House of v'ommons, after the general election of December. 193 8. consisted of 707 members distributed as follow : England 402. Wales 30. Scotland 74. Ireland 105. The state of parties was:— Coalit'on (including 334 T’nion ists. 138 Liberals and II Labour 478 Unionists - ... 48 Liberals . . . ‘ . .28 Labour 03 Sinn Fein . . , . 73 Notionalists . .... Independents . . . .30 I p till August 31. 1.922. there had been 77> contested and seventeen unrontested bv elections. The results of the contested by-elections were a net loss of 18 to the Coalition and net gains of 4. 12 and 2 to the Liberals. Labour and Independents respectively, making the state of parties (not'counting Sirin Fein, whose members never sat in the House):-- g Coalition . . - 460 Unionists . . .48 Liberal.-: .... 32 Labour . . . . 7o Independent . . .12 There had been a number of seces sions from the Coalition ranks, principally on the part of Unionists. The last list of nominations for tfm elections in Fngland. Scotland and Wales showed a total of I 123. made up as follows: Conservatives . .471 National Liberals . . 182 Liberals .... 333 Labour . . .114 Various parties . . 20
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16892, 17 November 1922, Page 7
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