Evening star., 1922-11-16

II - SAut x4Cuu6{VVu W66 OclcdSs
sd BY the conservative candidate. DR..
George e. Clayton. after holding the
seat since 1919. The vote was: Clay
ton. 1853: Henderson. 1887.
VI tho woman candidates ViScoun-
| tess Astor and Mrs. Margaret Whit
thus far. and the formers victory was
won by q closer margin than when
she was first sent to parliament to
represent the Sutton division OF
Plymouth. Lady Astor lost many
votes through the conservative split,
put made compensating gains from
the laborites and liberals.
Lady Cooper. running as a conserve
tive to succeed her husband. Sir
Richard Cooper, who retired to make
way for her. was defeated by the
liberal II. candidate in W.lsali by only
. the two candidates. In the Brent
ford division Of Middlesex another
woman candidate. Mrs. Oliver
Strachey, Independent. was decisively
! beaten by Col. Grant Morden. con.
servative.
j. H. Thomas Elected.
Mrs. Wintringham. the present mem
Der for the Louth division Of Lincoln
! shire. retains her seat with 1909 votes
| Alan Hutchings, with 1925 votes.
| J. H. Thomas. labor, and Charles
Roberts, liberal. were elected for Dor
by's two seatS. Thomas received 26-
2l5 votes. and his conservative op-
ponent. A. Green. 1920. Roberts polled
24.068 votes against 2l,677 for his labor
| opponent, w. R. Raynes.
This Is gain Of another seat fol
the As9uithian liberals. So heavy was
| the polling that nine hours was re-
qutred to count the votes.
Bitterness Almost Lacking.
One the whole the election was re-
markable for Its good humor. The old
! alities were almost absent. Party colors
were worn very little. But In one dis
trtct a party went to the length OF
coloring two miles Of streets blue, in
dicating to the electors their path to
Stories of babes and sucklinss who
! accidentally were enrolled on the
registers. and who were taken to the
polls to exercise their franchise. mul-
tiply. while never before was there
such crop OF centenarians as tot
tered to the various booths yesterday
McCalle. said to be the last survivor
| of the siege OF Lucknow. Another
was Frank Draper, reputed to have
been a friend of Charles Dickens.
Parsee Wins Seat.
Among the successful labor candi-
dates was Shapurji Saklatvala, 9
Parsee. born In England, who regards
himself as member for India" al
though elected for the prosaic work
Ing district of Battersea. South Lon
don. He intends to look after the in
| terests Of Indian education
Herbert H. Asquith was reelected
IN Paisley. but his majority was
greatly reduced. He received 15,006
votes and his labor opponent. J. M
In February: 1920. Mr.. Asquith poiled
1875 and Mr.. Biggar 1892.
Lady Emmott, Asquithian liberal
was at the bottom of the poll In Old
nam. which returns two members
The Georgeite liberal. Sir e. Grigg
headed the list. polling 24,762.
Laborites Gain in Barnsley.
Barnsley was a labor gain. the Ia.
borite, J. S. Potts. polling 1928
lite-liberal. with 12.O11
| Great Yarmouth registered the first
change. the liberal. Arthur Harbord,
with 1886. defeating Lieut.. Col. o.
de W. Crookshank, conservative. g.
9l7. and the labor candidate. Arthur
Whiting 2.574.
Labor gained another seat in the
lShettlestown division of GLASGOW. J.
3Wheatley. polling 14.ss5 to s.7ol for
T. B. W. Ramsay, Georgeite. The third
ieandidate, sa,,as tso Alfred Guy. communist,
The sprinsburn. Tradeston. Cam
Ilachie. cathcart and Maryhili divi-
jturnovers from conservative to labor,
which returned also the Gorbals di-
vision. Labor gained Tottenham.
North. from the conservatives.
Gains for Conservatives.
The conservatives made gains in
Legion. East. and Legion. West, the
central division Of Portsmouth. the
hartford division Of Kent and the
Pudsey division Of Yorkshire:
L Sir Alfred Mond. minister Of health
In the Lloyd George cabinet, keeps
his seat in West Swansea. Sir Henry
Norman, Georgeite liberal. retains his
seat for Blackburn, sharing repre-
sentation Of the borough as before,
tain, conservative. was reelected for
the Acton division of Middlesex. de-
feating the laborite. Miss Richardson.
Labor won a big victory in Shef-
field, Attercliffe division. c. H. Will
son capturing the seat from the
16.20s to 1852. This is one Of the
biggest turnovers thus far. Casey
being elected for the last house with
q vote Of 12,30S to the laborite candi-
dates 6.539.
Laborite Wins In Newcastle.
Another striking labor gain was in
Newcastle on Tyne, central division,
where C. p. Trevelyan, one of labor's
'intelligentsia." defeated the retiring
conservative. Sir George Renwick,
13.709 to 8.639. Renwick had q ma
jority of 4.43S over the laborite in
the last election.
Mr. Trevelyan was parliamentary
secretary to the board Of education In