TENSE ELECTION FIGHT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 669, 22 May 1929, Page 9

TENSE ELECTION FIGHT

BALDWIN’S SON STANDS < FOR LABOUR BROTHERS CONTEST SEAT (United Service) LONDON, Tuesday. ' The list of candidates for the Gem . eral Election reveals many instances of families being closely concerned in contests. The Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, is fighting for the Bewdley division of Worcestershire, for which he was returned unopposed in 1924. Also he is having the first triangular contest in his career. Mr. Baldwin’s son Oliver is Labour candidate for Dudley. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald’s son Malcolm is Labour candidate for Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire. Mr. Lloyd George’s son Major Gwilyn Lloyd George and his daughter Miss Megan Lloyd George are Liberal candidates for Pembroke and Anglesey, respectively. Mr. Arthur Henderson’s two sons are also Labour candidates. Sir Francis Ackland and his son Dingle, both Liberals, are contesting Hexham and Torquay, respectively. Mr. Isaac Foot (Liberal) is again contesting Bodmin, Cornwall, and his son is fighting Tiverton, Devonshire. Mrs. Harrison Bell (Labour) is contesting Luton and her son, also a Labour candidate, is fighting Wood Green. There are two instances of husbands and wives among the candidates. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Runciman (Liberals) are fighting St. Ives and Tavistock, respectively. Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Moseley (daughter of the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston) (Labour) are contesting Smethwick and Stoke, respectively. Sir Hall Caine’s son Ralph (Conservative) is once more contesting East Dorset. Another son Derwent (Labour) is contesting Everton. Two brothers, Co and Llewellyn Jones, the former Labour and the latter Liberal, are contesting the same seat —Flintshire. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald is engaged in a four-cornered fight at SeahamHis opponents include Mr. Harry Pollitt (Communist). Mr. Lloyd George is having a threecornered contest at Carnarvon. AN INTENSE STRUGGLE “The Times” says the intensity of the election contest is proved by the fact that there are three-cornered contests in 444 constituencies and quadrangular contests in 26. There are only 102 straight-fights, including 70 Conservatives opposing Labour candidates, 16 Conservatives opposing Liberals and 14 Labour candidates opposing Liberals. The Conservatives are fighting every seat in Wales. A rumour in circulation recently that many old memhers were not seeking re-election is disproved by the fact that 511 ex-mem-bers of the House of Commons are fighting seats. Of these 312 Con- ] servatives, 144 Labour candidates and four Liberals are contesting their former seats. Sixteen are fighting new seats. All women who were members of the last Parliament are again seeking election, except Mrs. Hilton Philipson (Northumberland) and Mrs. Hugh Dalton (Bishop Auckland). The number of candidates (1,724) is a record.