The General Election was completed on Friday week by the
return of a Coalition Liberal for Kennington. Mrs. Lucas, standing as a Unionist in place of her late husband, whose death had delayed the election, was second on the poll. The Coalition now numbers 478 Members, not counting 23 Inde- pendent Unionists and 25 Irish Unionists. The Opposition, including 73 Mon Princes, has 181 Members—little more than a fourth of the House. According to the Times, sixty per cent. of the electors went to the poll. This estimate takes account of the fact that there are many duplicate entries on the Registers, and that the total electorate of 21,371,612 is consequently larger than the number of electors who could vote in a General Election. If sixty per cent, of the electors voted, the new House is as representative as most Houses hare been.
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