The Municipal Elections In the municipal elections held last Monday
Labour in the London Boroughs has obtained substantially the same measure of success which it achieved in the L.C.C. elections in March. In the Metropolitan area it gained 57 seats and lost 5, while the Municipal Reformers suffered a net loss of si—a result in general accordance with anticipation. By electing a Communist Stepney has the distinction of returning the only candidate in the London area who repre- sented neither of the two main contending parties. As to the rest of the country no two papers seem able to agree on the figures. A table given by The Times for the more important boroughs credits Conservatives with 361 seats, Liberals with 62, Labour with 409 and Independents with 252. Ten Fascist candidates stood, all unsuccessfully. The Socialists gain slightly on balance. It is probably true to say that the results have little real party political importance, for party labels mean less in municipal than in national politics—and rightly.
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