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THE BRITISH ELECTIONS.

Thr British elections will begin to yield results on January 14th. On that date unopposed returns will come in. Borough and county elections will follow, and by the end of the month, the constitutional battle will be decided. The last general election took place in January, 1906, and the Liberals were then returned with a triumph majority. The pledged Liberals numbered 376, while the Conservatives only totalled 130. Liberal Unionists made a party of 27, but though they went with the Conservatives, Labourites and Nationalist went mostly with the Liberals. The Conservatives appear, however, notwithstanding that recent appeal to the ballot boxes, to be putting up a gallant and sanguine fight. Liberals and Conservatives vvill.no doubt view with some apprehension the prospects of an increase in the membership of the Labourite and Nationalist sections. At the 1900 election Labour won only nine seats ; at the 1906 election it won 54. If Labour makes a further spring it and the ..Nationalists, who numbered 83 in the last Parliament, would be able to constitute themselves an influential third party. The closer the Conservatives run the Liberals in the number of seats, the stronger for Parliamentary strategic purposes that third party becomes.

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 706, 8 January 1910, Page 2

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THE BRITISH ELECTIONS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 706, 8 January 1910, Page 2

THE BRITISH ELECTIONS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 706, 8 January 1910, Page 2

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