The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement, 1905-1910Pankhurst, E. Sylvia (Estelle Sylvia)
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The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement, 1905-1910
Pankhurst, E. Sylvia (Estelle Sylvia)
Women -- Suffrage -- Great Britain
_Kincardineshire_, polling, April 25th.
The Hon. A. Murray (L.) 3,661
Mr. S. G. Gannell (C.) 1,963
_____
Liberal majority 1,698
At the General Election the figures had been:
Mr. W. J. Crombie (L.) 3,877
Mr. S. J. Gannell (C.) 1,524
_____
Liberal majority 2,353
_Wolverhampton_ (E), polling day, May 5th.
Mr. G. Thorne (L.) 4,514
Mr. L. S. Amery (C.) 4,506
_____
Liberal majority 8
At the General Election the figures had been:
Sir H. Fowler (L.) 5,610
Mr. L. S. Amery (C.) 2,745
_____
Liberal majority 2,865
_Montrose Boroughs_, polling day, May 12th.
Mr. R. V. Harcourt (L.) 3,083
Mr. Burgess (Lab.) 1,937
Mr. A. H. B. Constable (C.) 1,576
_____
Liberal majority 1,146
At the General Election the figures had been:
Mr. J. Morley (L.) 4,416
Col. Sprott (C.) 1,922
_____
Liberal majority 2,494
In the batch of by-elections which had occurred since Mr. Asquith had
become Prime Minister, most of them as a consequence of the change in
the ministerial leadership, the Government had therefore suffered
a reduction of 6,663 votes or more than eighteen per cent. of the
total Liberal poll recorded in the same constituencies at the General
Election of 1906. Though the party leaders denied that the Suffragette
campaign had affected any of the election results, there were few who
had really worked in the elections who believed this and only Cabinet
Ministers, newspaper editors and the Suffragettes themselves could
form any impression of the large number of influential people who were
writing to one or other of those three agencies to say so. At the
same time a growing spirit of disaffection towards the Government was
showing itself amongst Liberal women and Miss Florence Balgarnie's
declaration that they had been "hewers of wood and the drawers of water
for the Liberal Party too long, and that they must now look out for
themselves," found a wide echo.
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