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Table C. By-elections 1911 and 1912, and changes in polling since last contest. 



fNo Labour candidate at last general election. 



^Unionist gain from Liberal. 



(a) No Unionist candidate. Ind. candidate polled 2,913 votes. 



(bj Liberal gain from Labour. 



(c) Socialist candidate polled 134 votes. 



(d) No contest in December 1910. Figures compared with January 1910. 



(e) Independent Socialist and Woman's Suffrage candidate polled 3,291, or 1,024 ' esf: 

 than he had polled in December 1910 when standing as a Socialist member of the Laboui 

 party with official Liberal support. 



Behind them in the House of Commons the most prominent members of the Ministry 

 holding major ofliccs were: Mr. Birrell 1 (Irish Secretary since 1907; b. 1850); Mr. Johr. 

 Burns 2 (President Local Government Board since 1905; b. 1858), Mr. Sydney Buxton 

 (President Board of Trade since Feb. 1910; Postmaster-general 1905-1910; b. 1853); 



1 E. B. iii, 989. 2 Ibid., iv, 855. 



