'A majority of only two votes in a British Parliamentary election seems 80 incredible that there is some justification for the action of the Scottish Socialist Party in petitioning for a new poll In the Kelvingrove division of Glasgow where Mr. Walter Eliott, the Conservative candidate and Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, defeated his Labour opponent, Mr. MacNell_by that narrow margin. Human fallibility ig such at an election {that, an error may happen as It did in this case for a second count increased, the "majority to 149. Nevertheless, such narrow choloes in deciding the political fate of a constituency have Joccurred before. In the 1931 election, Jeontesting Hkeston Mr. A. J. Flint,
[Labour opponent, Mr. G. H. Oliver, National Labour candidate, beat is) jaiso by two votes. There Is a case on record in which only a single vote split, the issue. Generally speaking, elections in England are decided in no uncertain manner. In 1931, there! were 105 candidates who were Te-turned with majorities of 20,000 lover while Major the Rt. Hon. G. Tryon carried Brighton with a majority of 62041 and Sir Cooper! Rawson, the second member, with 2 majority of 62.258.
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