DECISIVE WIN

Taranaki Daily News, 18 November 1922, Page 5

DECISIVE WIN

BOMAR LAWS MARGIN. AN ABSOLUTE MAJORITY. SIG SUPPORT TO LABOR. SURPRISES OF THE POLL. CHURCHILL BEATEN. Bj Teietfriph.—Pr&M Ak. —Copj'lgbt Received Nov. 18, 1.25 a.m. London, Nov 17. In the election of the House of Commons of 615 members, the results are now available in 607 cases, giving the following position:

Excluding the eight incomplete polls, the total vote recorded is 13,913,666. being 5,381,413 for the Government and 8,532,253 against. The net party results are: Conservatives ... 19 losses. Labor 58 gains. Liberals 27 gains. National Liberals. 16 losses London, Nov. 16. Mr. Winston Churchill was defeated at Dundee. A Laborite beat Sir Donald Maclean (Liberal leader when Mr. Asquith had not a seat in the House) at Peebles. Sir Alfred Butt beat J. W. Molden for the Balham division of Wandsworth by 9195 votes. Sir J. Norton Griffiths was re-elected for Wandsworth Central with an enhanced majority over the Laborites. Sir Stanley Baldwin (Chancellor of the Exchequer) retained the Bewdley division of Worcester by a majority of 5443 votes over the Liberal. Lord Robert Cecil retained his seat by a majority of 5075 votes over a La bo rite at Hitchin. Mr. W. C. Bridgeman (Home Secretary) was re-elected for Oswestry. Mrs. Wintringham beat Mr. Hutchings for Louth. Sir Hamar Greenwood has been defeated. Dr. Chapple defeated Mr. Kenswick (Conservative) for Dumfries-shire by 2241 votes. Major Ormsby-Gore retained hi® Stafford seat ‘by a majority of 3318 votes over Labor. Major Astor beat Mr. Polson for the Dover seat by 10,000 votes. Mr. Dudgeon (Liberal) beat Watson (the Scottish Lord Advocate) for Galloway. Mr. Newbold (Communist) was elected for the Motherwell division of Lanark, where two Liberals split the vote. Mr. Neville Chamberlain retained the Ladywood division of Birmingham with a reduced majority against a Laborite. Mr. Bonar Laws majority at Central . Glasgow of 13,000 in 1918 was reduced to 2500 over Labor, while Labor and ; Liberal combined polled four votes more j than the Premier. HEAVY POLLING. Compared with the 1918 elections, the polling at all constituencies was enormously heavy. Mr. Arthur Henderson’s defeat at Widnes was a great surprise. Mr. Clayton (Conservative) beat him in a etraightout fight by 1782. Visoount Ednam (Conservative) was re-elected for Hornsey. Sir M. Conway and Mr. H. A. L. Fisher (late Minister of Education) retained their seats for the combined Universities of Durham. Manchester. Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham and Bristol. Sir M. Conway was ahead of Mr. Fisher by a few votes. Sir L. Worthington Evans (former Secretary for War) was re-elected for Colchester. Sir John Seely and Mr. Kellaway were both rejected. Commander Burney was elected for Uxbridge, and the Hon. F. S. Jackson. : the cricketer, re-elected for Howdenshire. The voting in Islington was: Sir Newton Moore, 13,520; Miss Tuberville (Labor), 7993; Sargant (Liberal) 7256. Sir John Simon wae elected for Spen Valley. At Durham, J, Rits&n (Labor) beat Mr. Hills (Financial Secretary to the Treasury) by 2872 vote®. Mr. M'Curdy beat Miss Margaret Bcndfield (Labor) by 5476 votes. Mr. Ben Tillett escaped defeat at North Salford by 19 votes. Sir Philrp Richardson (the well-known rifleman) won Chertsey for the Conservatives. Mr. Harney was elected to South Shields, where Mr. Havelock Wilson (Labor) was at the bottom of the poll. The counting of the county votes only began this morning. Among the unclassified returns three stood as eo-operators and may be regarded as Labonte successes.

SIX MINISTERS DEFEATED. Mr. Ralph *Hall Caine beat Captain Guest for Dorset (East. Mr. E. Shenwell (Labor) defeated Vr. J. Kidd, Scottish Under-Secretary for Health, in Linlithgow. Lady Barlow was bottom of the poll in the High Peak (Derbyshire) contest. Lord Hugh Cecil and Professor Oman were re-elected for Oxford University by proportional representation. Mr. Masterman was defeated for Clay Cross (Derbyshire) (by a Laborite. Mr. Harry Gosling (Labor) was beaten in Kennington by a Conservative. Mr- Shakespeare, one of Mr. Lloyd George’s secretaries, was returned for Wellingborough. VW Ethel Bentham was at the bot-

tom of the poll at Islington. Major Tryon and Commander Rawson (Conservatives) were returned for Brighton. Mr. C. B. Fry, the cricketer, was 4900 lower down in the poll. Mrs. Brodrick was beaten for Denbigh. Mr. Phillipson (National Liberal) beat Mr. Runciman at Berwick and Haddington. ‘ Mr. Westwood was elected for Midlothian and Peebles with 6394 votes. Mr. Crawford (Conservative) secured 5992 voteo and Sir Donald M‘Lean 5377. Major Lloyd George, in Pembrokeshire, beat a Laborite by a majority of 11,866. Sir Guy Granit (Conservative) was elected for Buckrose. Mr. Scrimgeour (Prohibitionist) was elected for Dundee with 32,578 votes. Mr. Morel (Laborite) secured 31.292 votes. Mr. Churchill was fourth with 20,466 and Mr. Pilkington fifth with 6681. All the contests in which Ministers were concerned arc -completed. Six of them lost their seats. Mr. Roberts (Independent) and Commander Hilton Young were re-elected for Norwich. Mr. Philip Snowden (Labor) was returned for Colne Valley.

Conservatives ... 346 Labor ... 141 Liberals ... 62 National Liberals ... 44 Various ... 14 Incomplete returns . ... 8 615