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The LibornTh and the 1900 ons
The Liberals did not fare as catantrophically
in the Genoral Election of October 1900 as they may
have feared. They dada a net lose of only two aeato.
After the Election Conservatives and Liberal Unionists
together hold four hundred and one coats, Liberals
and Labour one hundred and eighty seven and Irish
ttationalista eighty two.
(1)
The Conservatives
gained thirty five seats and the Liberals thirty-throe
(excluding Ireland where two Nationalist Caine balanced
two Unionist ones).
(2)
The two parts of the
country whore the Liberals lost most heavily were
Scotland and the north-east
(Northumblerland and
Durham). The Conservatives made a not gain of six
seats in Scotland where the Liberals were traditionally
strong, and of four coats in the north-oaatP)The
Liberal loaders especially bemoaned the disaster in
Scotland but in proportion to the number of constituencies
(1) Tim, 19th October 1900.
(2) See Appendix 29
(3) Soo Appendix 2,