Election Reflections Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : Seldom at a
General Election have there been fewer signs, of the way in which opinion was moving than in this Election, in which the Government has scored a majority of close on 250. There was little atmosphere of crisis ; meetings all over the country were, in comparison with 1931', poorly attended,' and not the' mest bitter of the Govern- ment's opponents could accuse the Conservative Central Office of producing a last-minute scare. From the first broadcast speech of Mr. Baldwin the electors seemed to have made up their minds which way they would vote, and having done so they went about their business and took remarkably little notice either of the candidates or of their propaganda. An analysis of the voting, for instance, in the boroughs shows a decline in the Govern- ment support in almost every ease of 8,000 votes. It mattered very little apparently whether the Government candid:11 e was good or bad, a public figure or a nonentity. If his 1031 majority Was sufficiently large to stand the loss, he held the seat ; if it was not he was defeated.
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