The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-08
Results of English Elections
 Favor the Liberals
LONDON IS STILL LOYAL
From Results In London Where Several Upturns Occur In
 the Voting

London, December 1.-The standing ol the parties at the close of today's polling was as follows:
 Government coalition
 Liberals, 123.
 Irish nationalists, 3S.
 Laborites. 23.
 Total 1SS.
 Oppositon
 Unionists, ITO.
 The unionists secured six gains in today'S polling, the results of which were an nounced tonight. and suffered a loss of on ly two seats. The unionist total gains foi the four days are IS, the liberal gain | and labor four. Among the nationalist the OBrienites hold five seats.
 The most notable unionist victory was in Cardiff, which has only had one union ist in a quarter of century.
 This victory was largely due to the per sonal popularity of Lord Critchton-Stuart who overcame a liberal majority of 1555, winning by 299 and the withdrawal from politics of the old member, D. A. Thom- as. who was replaced in the liberal in- terest by Sir c. Hyde A Greater Surprise
 There was an even greater surprise, however, in the carrying of Plymouth by Waldorf Astor and A. Shirley Benn. John Burns old opponent in Battersea, who took MT M Durand's place as the run ming mate of the young Anglo-American. They proved good team and the work that MT. Astor had done in the con stituency was shown In his success in re- placing c. k. Mallet, financial secretary to the war office, who is the first min ister to be defeated. In addition, young Astor headed the poll
 The unionists also captured the Melton division of the Leiceshershire, and theii other two gains were made from labor Dudley which was consistently unions until i9o6 returned to the fold and Wis count Wolmer reeaptured Newton, in Lancashire. S. w., which labor had helc in two pariaments, Lancashire not re- maining as staunchly with the govern ment as in the two previous contests.
 Almost everywhere in the country the labor and liberal vote decreased. and the unionsts are more pleased with their gains here than anywhere else in the | country. For some reason many Lancas- terans failed to vote, which is rather remarkable for the northerns, who are keen politicians. In several cases the unionists won seats on the same vote boiled as in January, while the coalition vote was reduced through abstention on the part of former supporters. Comfort From London
 The government gets some comfort from London, all the district of which arc now polled. Today the liberals won Stepney, which was unionist in the last election and labor gained Bow and Brom- ley The latter seat was captured by George Lansbury, an avowed socialist, whom Chancellor Lloyd George advised the liberals to support in preference to L. S. Amery, the historian and writer, and one of the tariff reformers who mar ried the sister of T. Hamar Greenwood, the free trade member for Sunderland.
 These victories brought the coalition gains in the metropolis up to. four, against two losses. Besides B. S. Straus. the liberal candidate. came within two votes of recapturing Mile End in Tower Ham, lets from Fl. l.. Lawson The Rt. Hon. Sidney Buxton, president of the board of trade. like John Burns, the other member of the cabinet sitting in London seat, greatly increased his majority.
 The success of William O'Brien in Cork and the possibility of his further in creasing his following somewhat compli- cates the situation.
 The unionsts are asking what the gov ernment will do if it has to face a stronger union opposition, with stronger fighting force of Irishmen on its flank The fight between O'Brien and Redmond. the strongest candidates of the respec- tive factions of the nationalist party to represent Cork city, resulted in a sweep ing victory for the leader of the "All for Ireland League
 Mir OBrien not only heads the poll with a majority of 63s, but takes with him to the house of commons Mauce Healy with majority of 52S over Redmond.
 Altogether 64 members were voted for today, but only 36 results were an- nounced.