The vacancy at Grimsby caused by the death of Sir
George Doughty has been filled by the return of the Unionist candidate. Polling took place on Tuesday, the figures being: Mr. T. G. Tickler (U.), 8,471; Mr. A. Bannister (L.), 8,193; Unionist majority, 278. At the last General Election in December, 1910, Sir George Doughty was returned by a majority of 698. On Tuesday the election was fought on an electorate numbering 2,659 more voters, the total poll being 1,556 larger. The main issue was Home Rule, and, in view of the strong claims of Mr. Bannister as a fisherman and a Grimsby man, the result is decidedly satisfactory. It is absurd to represent the Unionist cause as anti-democratic when more than half of the votes polled in so eminently democratic a constituency as Grimsby are cast for the Unionist candidate.
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