The Archive · 1910

UNCONTESTED SEATS

London vid Bombay Nov. 29, A feature of the forthcoming elections will be the number of seats uncontested. At present, exclusive of Ireland, there are sixty-four seats without Liberal candidates and thirty-eight without Unionist candidates, compared ith nine without Liberals and one without a Unionist at the election in January.

Probably there will only be twenty triangular contests compared with forty-nine at the January election.—Reuter.

The facts stated above indicate that the fonds even of the two great parties are not capatls of bearing the strain of apneal electious.—Ep.

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