A Clog-Dance Promised.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18218, 31 October 1924, Page 9

A Clog-Dance Promised.

The Conservative, Mr Duff-Cooper, gained one scat in Oldham from Labour. The second seat wa9 retained by Sir Edward C.rigg (Liberal). During the campaign Lady Diana Puff-Cooper promised to dance in public in wooden clogs if her husband were returned. [Oldham returns two members. At last election the voting was: Tont (Lab.) 20,Mft. Sir Edward Grigg (L.> 20,(i51, Wiggins (!..> 17.000. Freeman (C."> L'.SID. Smethurst Edward Grigg was in New Zealand as military secretary to the Frinee of Wales. Before the war he was on the editorial staff of "The Times." Lady Grigg was the only daughter of Lord Islington, a former Governor of New Zealand. Though an untitled Commoner, Mr Duff-Cooper, D.5.0., can claim kinship with royalty, he being a first cousin of the young Duchess of Fife, the late Duke and Mr Cooper's mother being brother and sister.] Mr K. A. Taylor, a Labourite and Mayor-elect of Lincoln, gained Lincoln from the Conservative. Mr A. T. Da vies, in a triangular tight, by a majority of 31'. Mr Taylor is a shop-assistant, an ex-student of Kuskin College (Oxford I *, and propagandist for the agricultural labourers. lln ]f)'J3: Davies (C.) IU3B. Taylor (Lab.t 9'251, Macdonnel! (L.) 6447. The defeated member is a director of the Austin motor company.] Women Unsuccessful, Lord Eustace lVrey. a Conservative. was re-elected r'rr Hastings, defeating the Labour candidate and the Australian Mrs Muriel Porter (Liberal). Mrs Mary Hamilton was one- of the Labour candidates at Blackburn, where Mr J. Duckworth (Liberal) and Sir Sidney Henn (Conservative) were re-elected. The Conservative candidate gained Bath frcin the Liberal in a threecornered contest, in which the Labourite intervened to spoil tho Liberal's chances.

[1923: Raffertv <L.). 13.694, Foxcroft (C. sitting member) 12,830.] The Labourite Mr Pethick Lawrence originator of the capital levy, was reelected in Leicester West. Sir Walter Do Frecc (Conservative), husband of Miss Vesta Tiller, the actress, gained Blackpool from the Liberal Colonel Meyler.

fin 1923: Meyler (W 22.264. ViceAdmiral Stanley (C.) 19.192. Sir Walter I)e Freece was formerly member for Ashton-under-Lyne.]

Tho veteran Labourite Mr J. Sexton was re-elected for St. Helens, Lancashire, defeating Miss Pilkington (Consprivative). Tho intervention of Liberals at Exeter and Farnworth, Lanes., resulted in an increase in the Conservative majority at Exeter to 8163, and a decrease in the Labour majority at Farnworth to 2806.

[At Exeter last year the Conservative majority in a straight fight with Labour was 7785. In Farnworth, Lanes., tho Labour majority over tho Conservative candidate was 3724.]

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HOW THE VOTING WENT.

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LONDON, October 30. Lady Astor's majority in the Sutton Division of Plymouth was 5079. Mr Austen Chamberlain was re. elected for Birmingham West with a majority of 7643 over a Communist, Dr. Dunstan.

Sir Homar Greenwood (Conservative) was elected for Walthamstow East.

Mr Arthur Ponsonby (Under-Secre-tary for Foreign Affairs) was elected in a straight-out fight with a. Conservative in the Brightside Division of Sheffield, by a majority of 3345. P,'ir Harry Brittain (Conservative) was elected for Acton in a four-oorner-cd fight, defeating the Independent, Miss Mary Richardson, the Liberal, Mr B. A. Benson, and the Labourite, Mr H. A. Baldwin.

Richmond (Surrey) returned a Conservative, Sir Newton Moore, who defeated the Labourite, Mr Parker, a nephew of Mr J. R. Clynes. Mr J. H. Thomas (Secretary of State for tho Colonies) was elected for Derby with a majority of 2251. The Conservative, Sir Herbert Cayzcr, was elected in Portsmouth South, riofeatin;: the Labourite, Miss Jessie Portsmouth now is solely Conservative. A Labourite was elected for the Ardwick Division of Manchester, defeating the Conservative, Miss Jones. Xevca'-tle-on-Tyne is represented by one Conservative and three Labourites. Mr V. V,'. Jowctt (First Commissioner () f Works) wa.'j defeated in Bradiord East by a Liberal, by a majority o; til). The Conservative retired. Dr. Haden Guest (Secretary of the Luljoui* Cmnniouwealth Group) was reelected for Southwark North, with a majority oi 1030, in a three-cornered! contest.