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Show ENORMOUS VOTE I IN ELECTIONS; II Winning Candidates Roll Up 11 Great Majorities in New 11 Parliament Race. lil LONDON. Dec. 20 Complete rc- n turns for the election oC the new par- 1H liament give the following: results: IB Coalition Unionists 334. IJ Coalition Liberals K27. Bf -Coalition Laborites 10. fw 'Unionists -if?. -A.' ' Im Asquithlan Liberals 37. ' If Labor! tes 65. . v Dj National party 2. IBi Independents 5. mm Socialists 1. IBj Sinn Feiners 73. 11 Irish Nationalists 7. . Mm All coalition with (he Unionists and i National parly may be regarded rough - H? lv as supporting Lloyd George. The H! onlr opposition will be formed by the H Asquithian Liberals, Laborites and J Independents. H LONDON. Dec, 21). A remarkable It feature of the elections for the new IE parliament is ihe enormous majorities H received by many of the winning ean-didates ean-didates and a dearth of very small ma- JUnder ihe provisions of the new j franchise act every candidate who H fails to obtain one-eighth of the votes mm polled in his constituency forfeits his deposit of 150 pounds sterling. More ; than 130 candidates are victims of this , j It is difficult to compare the re- suits of this election with that of 1910 j owing to the numerous rearrangements of constituencies under ihe last re- H form act. but a comparison between the country area, as a whole shows lhat London has gone almost solid for the coalition. Only throe independent fiberals were returned and the two laborites returned are both eoalition- Yorkshire Returns Astonishing. "I'he returns in Yorkshire are no less astonishing. Of the fifty-six members fi-pni Yorkshire, twenty-six are coali-lion coali-lion unionists; eighteen coalition lib-rials, lib-rials, two members of the old Demo-cratie Demo-cratie party which supports the coali-! nor. are discharged soldiers and sail- Hl or-' representatives; eight are labor inembers and only one is an independ-cut independ-cut liberal. In Lancashire, the sixty-six members returned do not include a single indc-pendent indc-pendent liberal. There arc thirty-right thirty-right coalition unionists, five independ- Hl rnt unionists, eight coalition liberals thirteen laborites, one socialist and one rationalist. j L en in Scotland the number of in- J dependent liberals returned can be W. numbered on the fingers of one Rand. W. Women and Soldiers Vote. Coalition leaders claim that the T.wo principal factors that contributed to their triumph are the votes of the wom- m. ir and soldiers. The former made the W; majority secure and the soldiers' vote, j according' to one leader came later as ; W. a tidal wave in favor of Lloyd Gaoige. 1 The twelve jdivisions of Birmingham J returned coalitionists, the only woman I candidate in the city being at the hot- j torn of the poll and forfeiting her dc- i posit. This forfeiture oT depos'l way j ai&o the fate of three other women can- M didates, including the only woman can- j didate in Scotland. W Most of the ballots cast out were ! those of soldiers who wrotp icro.-s ; Wl them such remarks as "Send us home j and we will vote," or "Wc have no in-formation in-formation about the candidates." W The net result of the election is summed up in today's papers as a per-sonal per-sonal triumph for Premier Lloyd j W George in the disappearance of the W two great parties, the liberals and Ir-; ish nationalists. The newspapers without exception W emphasize that the election is not Wl merely a great triumph but a great op- W portunity for Lloyd George, as the W country insists on the carrying out of a vast program of social reform. They declare that the governing classes are Hj on trial and it they fail to satisfy the country, a painful reckoning awaits them at the next election, which may H come sooner than is now apparent. Hl In this connection it is pointed out that labor largely voted coalition in the Hj expectation that a policy agreeable to labor would be pursued. |