* * * The story of the election itself is
already a stale one. Suffice it here to say that the Conservatives changed a majority of 77 to a minority of 101, that Labour raised its representation from 145 to 192, and the Liberals from 117 to 158, while there arc 6 Indepen- dents. Thus, there will be 257 Conservatives in the new House and 358 Members of other partie;:. Two Members have yet to be returned. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the whole election has been that this complete change in representation has been effected by a comparatively small change in the votes cast. The Government have only lost 20,000 votes since the last election, and the Opposition parties have only gained 386,000 votes since then, and yet the whole political kaleidoscope has rearranged itself. There has been a considerable amount of loose talk of over and under-representation of the parties. Hence, it may be worth while to put on record the exact figures, apart front the Independents and the scats yet to be filled. The Labour Party, for instance, polled 30.57 per cent. of the votes and secured 31.22 per cent. of the representation, and is thus slightly over-repre- sented. The Conservative Party polled 38.38 per cent. of the votes, and secured 40.14 per cent. of the representation, and the Liberals 29.86 per cent. of the votes, with 25.69 per cent. of the representation.
