British Elections.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1922, Page 3

British Elections.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. ANALYSIS OF VOTING. LONDON, November 18. An analysis of the aggregate votes of the election so far recorded gives the following results: Total votes 13,913,666 For Government 8,534,253 Against the Government 5,381,413 Majority against 3,152,840 A later analysis of aggregate votes of the election hitherto recorded gives the following Party totals; Consereatives 5,746,000 _ Labour 4,356,000 Liberals , 2,760,000 National (Lloyd George) Liberals 1,565,000 PARLIAMENT OPENS NEXT THURSDAY. LONDON, November 18. Mr Bonar Law has announced that the King will open Parliament on November 23rd. He stated that the Parliament’s approval of the Irish Constitution would be immediately sought. t,brd Curzon, in a summons to the House of Lords, says the session will he brief, and will be devoted mainly to Irish affairs. A CLOSE VOTE. j LONDON, November 17. Eight recounts have been necessary ; in the Derbyshire North Electorate. | They reduced the Labourite’s majority \ over Mr Hlomes (Liberal) from 14 to i five votes. j PRESS COMMENT. LONDON, Nov 17. The'“Daily Telegraph” says the election. has brought to the country the important advantage of a healthy balance of party strength. Next after a Labour triumph, the worst thing that could have happened would have been ji swollen superiority in members imbued with Conservatism with a weak inefficctual opposition. The nation can now support its troubles and apprehensions with a better heart and settle down to the work of patiently and undauntingly repairing its fortunes. The “Daily Herald” says: “Within eighteen months we must be prepared *' for another election. If in the meantime our cards arc played skilfully we ought to have a Labour Government without any doubt.”

A Labour manifesto declares the party won its sweeping triumph because of the solid support of the great mass of the electors who definitely turned away from Liberalism and Conservatism. It is obvious Labour is the inheritor of the old Radical tradition. It, is plain that nil the progressive eleiiieilts of the country, particularly members of tiie Free Chut'ches are being gathered lip by the Labour party, and that the sole alternative io a Conservative Government is a Labour Government. LONDON, Nov. 17. •Sutherland was re-elected for .\ rgyllshire. Ncwbold ('Communist Commoner) telegraphed to Moscow intimating Motherwell was won for Communism. Sir A. Sinclair (Liberal) heat Lord Marmsworth at Caithness. FRENCH OPINION. PARIS. Nov 17. i Throughout the campaign. French j newspaper* devoted unusual space and attention to the British election. ! Most of the papers welcome Mr 801 - j nr Law’s clear majority, on the ground j that it will not interfere with the Near East Confernce. The “Petit Parisienu” expresses tho opinion that the people voted less for Bonar Law and Conservatism than against tho Coalition system, of which i they had grown weary. The “Echo tie Paris” says the elec- j tion shows Conservatism would have l been discredited if it had continued 1 under Lloyd George’s dictatorship, which tiie electors condemned. The paper believes Labor and some Liberals are likely to vigorously oppose Air Bonar’ Law’s foreign policy. '1 he day lias gone when the • Foreign Office is lifted above the realm of party strife. The “Eclair” points out that tho election of many Conservatives on minority votes in three and four cornered contests, will leave Air Bonar Law somewhat uneasy, and may lend to electoral reform.