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Show Si Liberal Strongholds Are Captured Irish Have Balance of Power London, Jan. 20. wave of tnrllT reform swept over a maoiity of the constituencies, mostly county districts, which voted yesterday for members of parliament, and tho Unionists, on completed returns, show a total net gain thus far of DS seats. The state of the parties as known at 3 o'clock today was: Government coalition Liberals, 132; Irish Nationalists, 50; Laborltes, 25. Opposition Unionists, 158. 1 The total net gain of 5S by the Unionists is of Liberal seats The aggregate ag-gregate gains of the Union ista from 365 election districts complete were G9, while the Liberals had lv and the i Iaborltes 1 gain. ! Two gains In David Uoyd-Georye's j principality, the election of W. Ormajy ' Gore for Denbigh and C. T. Vanables-Llewellyn Vanables-Llewellyn for Radnorshire, are especially espe-cially treasured among the Boalps i taken by . the Unionists yesterday while Sir M. J. McT. Stewart, another1 Unionist, put a wedge In Scottish Liberalism, Lib-eralism, by capturing Klrkcud Brlght-shlre. Brlght-shlre. Other tariff reform victories were the election of Arthur H. Lee. formerly former-ly military attache at the British embassy em-bassy In Washington, who more tfcan tripled his early majority for the Fareham dlr.trlct of Hants, and Captain Cap-tain H. S. Pender Cay, who turned a Radical majority of 1.2-S3 for the southwest division of Ken. Into a Unionist majority of 2.210. Sir Fdward Grey, secretary of foreign for-eign affairs, retained his seat for the Berwkk-on-Tweed division of Northumberland North-umberland by a substantial majority, though reduced by nearly GOO from his j earlier figures. Alex Ure, for Llnllth- gowshlre, the attorney general, against I whom a special onslaught had been i made by the Unionists, won hands j down with a majority Increased by 974. i Herbert L. Short, Liberal, Yorkshire, North Ridlng-Clldlng division, nearly doubled his previous majority. |
