Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-30
WOMEN HOLD KEY
At BRITISH POLLS
Feminine Voters in Majority
as England Ballots on
Commons Seats.
b. the Associated Press.

By me Associated Press.
LONDON, May so. - Great Britain
voted today on members of its next
House of Commons, the seventh in the
reign of King George v. Indirectly the
election designates the political COM
plexion of the next cabinet.
Complete count of those going to the
polls; opening in most cases at 8 am.
and closing at pm, is expected 10
show more than 100000 900 electors of
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern
Ireland. OF total of nearly $4,000, 900
eligible to vote, women outnumbered
men, l5,277,623 to 1865, 1888.
Outcome Is Doubtful
The prediction campaign was
marked with unusual apathy and, pend
ing returns from todays voting, the
outcome was in doubt. Even money
was obtainable in London that the in
cumbent Conservative party would re-
turn 268 members to the Commons,
against 400 holding Office now; that
Labor would return 253 members,
against a present membership of 160,
and that the Liberals would jump to
101 from 46.
There are 6l5 seats in the Commons.
of which 306 comprise a majority;
therefore, should the even money bet
ting figures be approximated in the re-
suits, coalition of two of the parties
against the third or even another elec-
ton probably would be necessary for the
formation of new cabinet or govern
ment.
Results Of today's elections are expect
ed to be In doubt for from "a to 48
hours after the close of the polls
First returns from some of the con-
stituencies are expected as early as
1890 tonight t430 pm. Eastern
much later.
Seven Candidates Unopposed.
Results in possibly 206 constituencies
may be known by 5 am. tomorrow.
This first batch of results concerns
constituencies where the prospects were
regarded as less favorable for the gov
ernment than for the other parties. In
most of the other constituencies count
ing will not be begun until tomorrow
OF the SIS seats in the Commons
seven have been allotted already to can
didates unopposed on nomination day.
May 20. In another, Rugby division of
Warwickshire, polling has been post
poned until June 13, due to death of
one of the candidates, leaving but 607
seats at stake today. For those seats
there were more than loo candidates,
with three-cornered elections in ap-
proximately 500 constituencies.
The outstanding uncertainty in the
polling was the voting of more than
5 100000 women, many of them flap
pers" between the ages of 21 and rs.
recently entranchised who have not
voted before. While the Labor party
has made claim to most of the new
vote many political observers have con-
tended 1t will be expressed merely in
increased totals for each of the parties.
Lloyd George Provides Issue.
The single important issue which
appeared in the campaign was the
project to relieve unemployment ad-
vanced by David Lloyd George, who
promised an increase of public works
and road building to provide employ
ment for those now out of jobs. Despite
its being ridiculed by leaders of opposite
political faiths, it proved one Of the
most discussed facvors in the cam
paign.
No one. not even the most sanguine
Of the Conservative prognostica to-
day expected a landslide similar to
that of 1924 which returned more than
400 Conservative members to the
Commons Even then, however, the
parliamentary majority was obtained
with only a minority of votes cast, the
polling 7.354,523 popular
votes, Labor 5,487,620, and the Liberals
2 ,925,142.
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. the
Labor leader. Ramsay Macdonald:
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