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working class electorate; but issues other than the
war were poaoibly ioportant, - the alien immigration
agitation in Stepney and Z. W. Dethnal Green* and the
hostility of the costermaongers in Shoreditch Aoxton
to the'rogulationa imposed by the L. C. C. The
Liberals gained V. Camberwell and Shoreditch Uaggermton
won by W. Cromer the peace advocate. The Liberal
position in London which was extremely precarious with
only eight seats, was at least not much worsened.
In Lancashire there were our Conservative gains,
Burnley, Southport, Oldba t and I&tddleton,. and two
Liberal gains, - Lancaster and Radcliffe. The Liberal
decline in Lancashire was thus continued. In Yorkshire
two Liberal gains cancelled out two Conservative gains.
In the South-wust the Conservatives gained two seats and
Liberals three, in Cumberland and Westmoreland the
Conoervativon gained two and the Liberale one.
The maintenance of the Lib : ral position of courco
racked a genoral reduction in najorition though over
two million voters voted Liberal or trationalict ngatuct
(1) 1Jenry Polling, 02 cite p. 46 et. asq.