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Show UNIONISTS ARE GAINING ! But They Cannot Over-! Over-! come Big Lead of ! Liberals i London, Jan. IS. Completed returns from yesterday's elections for mem bers of parliament make the standing of tbe parties to date a follows: Government Coalition. Liberals, 79; Laborltes, 17; Irish j Nationalists, 16. Opposition. Unionists, 96. Net Unionist gain, 30. The Radical coalition fought on the defense today mure than heretofore, as of the 36 seats for which polling was In progress, they held all but ten in the last parliament. The frout bench politicians whose seats were decided today were: Winston Churchill, for Dundee; Sydney C Buxton, for the Poplar division di-vision of lower Hamlets; Walter Run ciman, for Dewsbery; Sir William Snowd?n-Robson. for South Shields. Liberals, and Alfred Lyttleton, for St Georges, Hanover Square, the former Conservative minister. All of these appeared certain of reelection The representation for Bermondsey, where John Duiuphreys scored a sensationalist sensational-ist Unionist victory iu the b -election of October last, also was In the melting melt-ing pot, and as Humphreys this tlm met an undivided opposition the seat quite likely has reverted to Liberalism. Liberal-ism. Yesterday's results were completed with the counting today In six districts dis-tricts to which total Is added the un opposed return of Unionist Robert T. ONolll. for Mid-Antrim, and National-lsts National-lsts John Dillon, for Tast Mayo; J. G. SwIft-MacNeill, for Southern Donegal, Done-gal, and Sir W. R. Nugent, for south, west Meath. Of the six returns announced today, the Unionists gained two in Sunderland, Sunder-land, where J Knott and D. Story turned out the right Hon. J. Howart, Liberal, and Sumner Bell, Ihorite, respectively. Stuart is the proprietor and editor of the London Morning Leader and the Star, which were so j prominent In the campaign against the peers and tarif reform until threo months ago, when he qualified the attitude at-titude of his papers Against IhcKo losses the Liberals captured a Unionist seat for New-CBstle-on-Tyne. which thus reverts to Its portion of 1906. |