BRITISH ELECTIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 678, 1 June 1929, Page 13

BRITISH ELECTIONS

V (Continued from page 9.)

SEE SAW at the polls

labour most often up

divorce does not affect POLITICS

vtrilian and N.Z. Press Association) L 1.25 p.m. LONDON, Friday, ur R. D - Denman, a brother of I Denman, as Labour candidate Central, turned a comfortConservative majority into a twur success. Although it was a LlLcornered contest, it was virtu--f* battle between Conservative 3 ‘‘s labour, who scored 33,000 votes, tie Liberal only 5,000. Miss Megan Lloyd George kept the mawhat tattered Liberal flag aloft = o “ n g[ ese v, where Labour made a ’iLicornered contest, scoring 7,000. "it «■ oite this intrusion. Megan carried constituency by the same major- “ (5 000) recorded for the previous l iteral holder, Sir Robert Thomas, in i rralght-out fight. labour’s strength in Derbyshire shown surprisingly at ChesterU where the Liberal majority of “.(.(J in 1924 was turned into a Labour nalority of 10,000. South Kensington was a centre of rotslderable interest, nowise in a soiltical sense, but In view of the controversy whether Sir William Davi<on should stand, owing to his figur■nt in a recent divorce suit. An indeoendent Conservative was nominated to aPF ease tlie stalled large body of Conservative opinion. Sir William Diirijon’s great majority seemed an effective answer to the question, wiile the unofflcial Conservative was at the bottom of the poll. The opinion concerning Lanark jiren at the by-election as recently S 3 three months ago was confirmed in ,he Northern Division,, where Miss Jennie Lee, increased her Labour grip to the extent of 5,000. There was considerable speculation about Mr. Winston Churchill’s chances at Epping, in view of the Quiet, determined opposition of a large body of motorists and others concerned io industry, but the Chancellor of the Exchequer retained the seat with a comfortable majority, piling 4,000 more votes than in 1924, in an increased list of 17,000.