RESULT OF ENGLISH ELECTIONS.

New Zealand Tablet, 20 January 1921, Page 7

RESULT OF ENGLISH ELECTIONS.

Latest returns from municipal elections in England show that the Catholic candidates have managed to hold their own In Liverpool , the Irish Nationalist Party had splendid success and captured four additional seats, making the party representation in the city council 20 seats. The Catholic voters in many Lancashire industrial districts have taken the lead from Liverpool, and thje result is in three great manufacturing towns Catholic candidates have secured election. Manchester has returned two Irish Catholic members; Blackburn, four Catholics, of whom two are Conservatives and two Labor; and at Bolton two Catholics were successful and three unsuccessful. Bootle returned its Catholic candidates unopposed, and Birmingham elected one Catholic member with a large majority, making a representation of three in the city council. In Glasgow the number of Catholic candidates was large; and, although prejudice was employed to block their election, the results are satisfactory, mainly due to the large portion of Irish voters.