New-York tribune., 1922-11-16
Conservatives Roll Up a
Large Early Vote, With
I58 Seats Assured, TO
I21 for Other Parties
Georgian Liberals
Run Poor Fourth
Labor i'm Second Place.
With Asquiillians A Third;
Lady Astor Reelected
By Arthur S. Draper

Copyright. 1929, New York Tribune Inc.
LONDON Thursday, Nov. 1S.--
With tabulating of the returns from
Yesterdays general election in Great
Britain practically suspended at a
o'clock this morning until noon to-
bay, the parties were assured OF
ttese seats: Conservatives, l5s;
Labor, Sc; Liberals, %; Georgian
liberals, %; Independents, s.
The early returns, coming largely
from the cities, give the Conserva-
lives a clear majority over all par
ties, and, although it is impossible to
dstermine exactly the final results
irom them, they indicate a tendency
toward a striking victory for the
Bonar Law government.
However, the few returns from rural
assriets have not beens as encouraging
% the Conservative as the results in
London and other urban centers and
gith only little more than one-third
II the total membership of the House
Commons accounted for the proper
aonate lead may be reduced sub
tantialy.
Labor Hopes for More Gains
Labor leaders, who are gratified by
Ger showing, their total being more
than the combined strength of the
ssaulth and Lloyd George wings of
ne Liberal Farty, are counting on new
aims in ths industrial districts of
Eslssst Scotland and in some agri-
W. -f~rd.
.usu appasently
7f Be less ,than,.in 1918, and III the
5eEaf Law ministry emerges with q
steIactory majority in the Commons
VIII represent a minority Of the
sesers The vote in the first ten con-
Aiaencies to report gave the Conser-
Hyes 118,748 to 143,1S8 for the other
iafties. In straight fights between
son commanding victories, but where
| labor the Conservatives topped the
+ PoH IN SdIh IeoS.
3e8 Needed for Majority
Premier Bonar Law must have 303
supporters to hold bare majority
in the House and he should have $40
10 lead the government satisfacto
nly. 1t may be significant that of the
l45 seats allotted to the Conservatives
at 2 o'clock this morning forty-two
we're unopposed in yesterdays vote.
That swells the early totals of the
party disproportionately as none of the
Laborites were unopposed and only
Eve each of the Asquithian and
Georgian Liberals.
No leading figures in the govern
ment or III party leadership had been
defeated in the early returns. Bonar
Law was returned from his Glasgow
constituency. Lloyd George was un-
opposed for reelection. Former Pre-
mier Asquith was reelected, but by
me narrow margin of 316 votes out
81 total of 10000. Sir Robert Horne
was vas returned from Glasgow. Sir
alFsd .h Mond, Minister of Health in
sne Lloyd George Cabinet, keeps his
Ssa ssaI from West Swansea. John P.
,Iiyhes and Ramsay Macdonald, Labor
'ssaers, were returned.
Lady Astor Only Woman Elected
Lazy Astor is the only woman whose
ssn ssss'lon was indicated up to 2 o'clock.
que retains her Plymouth constituency
y aoout the same proportionate vote
= she won it in 1918, although losing
isW votes to the Labor and Inde-
@raent Conservative candidate.
aw rev surprises mar the results to
ias ais sime. 1t had been conceded that
ss;se .saor would make some gains and
San ss,aher OF the Liberal organizations
sSas rs credited with more strength than
'usy have displayed.
a.. nue most outstanding reversal Of the
sss. s was IN Oxford, where the Liberals
srsufed sa seat for the first time in
WY years that any but, Conservatives
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