What's about Italian Goverment?
Hey ho the Conservatives are looking like a one term government.....The result of the Bury St. Edmunds by-election on 16 March 1961 caused by the appointment of Gerald Howard [Conservative] as a High Court Judge was as follows [ 1960 general election]:
Eldon Griffiths [Conservative]: 41.1% [47.6%]
Liberal candidate: 38.7% [35.7%]
Socialist Labour candidate: 20.2% [16.7%]
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Conservative majority: 2.4% [11.9%]
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The swing from Conservative to Liberal was 4.75%. The turnout was 64.5%.
Sir James Henderson-Stewart, the Liberal MP for Angus South in Scotland, died on 3 September 1961. The result of the subsequent by-election held on 7 November 1961 was as follows:
Donald Leach [Liberal]: 51.3% [47.4%]
Jock Bruce-Gardyne [Conservative]: 34.3% [44.6%]
John Smith [Socialist Labour]: 14.4% [8.0%]
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Liberal majority: 17.0% [2.8% ]
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Bate has some wonderful pages about Shirley, the woman Hughes was seeing before he met Plath.....Hughes's life might have taken a very different direction if he stayed with this attractive woman. But Shirley is not given a last name and you will search in vain for clues about this ' beautiful and clever undergraduate reading English and Oxford's (sic) Newnham College.