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Show LADY ASTOR WINS VICTORY. American Born Woman Elected to British Parliament. Plymouth. Lady Astor, American-born American-born wife of Viscount Astor, was elected elect-ed to parliament from the Sutton division divi-sion of Plymouth In the balloting of November 15. . The result was announced an-nounced after a count of the ballots here Friday afternoon. The vote stood: j Lady Astor, Unionist, 14,494; W. T. Gay, Labor, 9,292 ; Isaac Foot, Liberal, 4,139. Fully 80 per cent of the absent vote was estimated by a Liberal counter to have been cast for Lady Astor. The vote of this class was largely that of soldiers and sailors. |