Meanwhile the Women's Social and Political Union had been holding some two hundred large and enthusiastic meetings in the constituency each week, and on the eve of the poll they wound up with five monster demonstrations, four of which were in the open air and the fifth in the Drill Hall. Though the bulk of the Press throughout the country preferred to give greater space to the account of the incident between Mr. Churchill and Miss Maloney with her bell, glowing accounts of these W. S. P. U. meetings appeared in the Dundee papers. The _Referee_ for May 3rd also said: The women are doing wonderful election work and not getting half the credit for it that they deserve. Our wayward Winnie does not underestimate them as a fighting force. The War Song of the conquering Christabel to the worsted Churchill is "Bonnie Dundee." "And Tremble, false Whig, in the midst of your glee, You have not seen the last of my bonnet and me." It was perhaps to guard against any falling off in the Liberal Majority that on May 7th, two days before the Dundee poll, Mr. Asquith announced in the House of Commons that the establishment of Old Age Pensions was to be the outstanding feature of the forthcoming Budget. On polling day, May 9th, Liberal men and women stood beside the Suffragettes at the polling booths with handbills which were adapted from those of the Suffragettes, and read "Vote for Churchill, and never mind the women," and "Put Churchill in and keep the Women out." As had been a foregone conclusion, Mr. Churchill was returned by a large majority, but he received more than 2,000 votes fewer than Mr. Robertson, his predecessor, had done at the last election, and, whilst fifty-eight per cent. of the recorded votes had been cast for Mr. Robertson, Mr. Churchill only received forty-four per cent. of the total, and therefore represented a minority of the electors. The figures were:[26] Mr. Winston Churchill, Liberal 7,079 Sir G. Baxter, Unionist 4,370 Mr. G. H. Stewart, Labour 4,014 Mr. E. Scrymageour, Prohibitionist 655 At the General Election the figures had been: Mr. E. Robertson, Liberal 9,276 Mr. Alex. Wilkie, Labour 6,833 Mr. Henry Robson, Liberal 6,122 Mr. E. Shackleton, Unionist 3,865 Mr. A. D. Smith, Conservative 3,185 The results of the other elections which had been fought meanwhile, were as follows: _Dewsbury_ polling day, April 23rd. Mr. W. Runciman (L.) 5,594 Mr. W. B. Carpenter (C.) 4,078 Mr. B. Turner (Lab.) 2,446 _____ Liberal majority 1,516 The figures at the General Election had been: Mr. W. Runciman (L.) 6,764 Mr. W. B. Carpenter (C.) 2,954 Mr. B. Turner (Lab.) 2,629 _____ Liberal majority 3,810