By-Elections The results of two by-elections were declared at the
end of last week. In the Scarborough division of York- shire, where there was no Labour candidate, Mr. H. P. Latham, the Conservative candidate, defeated an excel- lent Liberal candidate in Mr. Ramsay Muir by over 2,000 votes. • There was a drop in the total poll of 1,000. In the St. Rollox election; where there was no Liberal candi- date, Mr. Leonard held the seat for Labour by a majority of 1,382 over a Conservative candidate and a woman advocate of Scottish Nationalism. The Labour vote fell by 9,000, which was also the fall in the total vote. It appears from these by-elections that Liberal and Labour candidates are not running in opposition to each other, and also that abstentions arc very numerous either from apathy or from the lack of a candidate from each of the three parties.
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