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Show Laborites Elected In England LONDON (AP) Harold Wilson's Wil-son's Labor party Friday apparently appar-ently won the British national election over Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home's Conservatives. Conserva-tives. JUBILANT LABOR party headquarters head-quarters said the remaining results re-sults would only determine the size of the Laborite margin in the House of Commons. Con-serative Con-serative party headquarters withheld with-held comment but was cast in gloom. The apparent Labor party victory vic-tory ended 13 unbroken years. From early In the counting, computers predicted a Laborite Labor-ite victory by, anything up to 40 seats. The Labor party's general secretary, sec-retary, Len Williams told newsmen: news-men: "We will get a majority of at least 30 seats probably more." Tabulations from 420 districts dis-tricts out of the 630 showed: Conservative party 176 seats. Labor party 242 seats Liberal party 2 seats Others 0 seats THIS REPRESENTS a net gain for the Labor party of 46 seats, all but three at the expense of the Conservatives. Two districts were captured from the Liberals and one other from an independent. indepen-dent. The Conservative net loss was 43 seats. Before the counting started both sides feared the result would be so close that neither party would gain the 20-seat edge regarded as a minimum workable majority in the 630-seat 630-seat House of Commons. The size of the mounting Labor tide dissipated that fear, however. Wilson, 48, a former Oxford University faculty member, has been dreaming of this moment since he was a boy of 8. He told his parents then that he wanted to be prime minister. See LABORITES page 4 Laborites . . . (Continued from page 1) WITHIN THE next day or two Wilson expects to be called to Buckingham Palace for an audience au-dience with Queen Elizabeth II. There he will assume the responsibility re-sponsibility of prime minister and give the nation a new, left-leaning left-leaning Cabinet. The new Parliament opens Nov. 3. THE ELECTION shaped up as a bitter disappointment for Douglas-Home, 61, a former nobleman who was trying to lead the Conservatives to their fourth straight election triumph. |