FIVE BY-ELECTIONS PENDING
LONDON, Nov. 2. Sir Axchibald Southby, M.P., has announced that he is resignmg. Jde hecame ill after visiting the Buchenwald eoncentration camp in 1945. ±'ive hy-elections are now pending m (Britain. It was stated in London before polling began in ihe borough eleetions tliat I'or the lirst time in history tliese loeal eleetions may deeide the lit'e of tlie Crovernment in West ininster. The, eleetions were for one-third ot tlie members of X.'! eounty boroughs and 309 iion-euunty borouglis in England and Wales. Tliere were no eleetions this year in the. 24 met roj)olitan boroughs whose meniljers are eleeted every three years. The Conservatives fighting as such witli oHieial party baeking eontested 2329 seats in 305 borOughs, the Woeialists fielding 2591) eandidates, the LiOerals 700, an the eominunists 250. Tlie Hoeialists at present control 52 of tlie eounty borouglis but onlv 74 or the noii-eounty boroughs against the ant i-Soeialist bloe of 225.
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 November 1947, Page 5
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