... leaders to seise the opportunity given by the widening of the electorate and the enfranchisement of women under the Representation of the people Act, and to make the Labour movement the most powerful Political force in the country. The aim is to be achieved ...

... Ward on Wednesday called to reform the Conservative Aisiociation in accordanee with the provisions of the new Representation .1 the People Act.. Amongst those present were Aid. E. Yearby, Councillor T. S. H. Ashwell. Messrs. W. H. Thompboe, W. J. Sheppard ...

... Section 29 of the Representation of the People Act. 1918, tc prepare. • under which as needy as possible one hundred members sha/1 be elected to the House of Commons at a General Election on the principle of Proportional Representation, have under consideration ...

... THE NEW REGISTER. PUBLICATION DEFERRED A ; FORTNIGHT. The Local Government Board issues the following : — Representation of the People Act, 1918, — The date for the publication of the electors’ lists fixed by Order ‘in Council for June 15th, will be postponed ...

... Section of the Representation of the People Act, 1918, to Prepare a Scheme under which as nearly as possible one hundred members shall be elected to the House of Commons at General Election on the principle of Proportional Representation, have under c ...

... this respect, very much to regretted that advantage was not taken the opportunity afforded by the passing the Representation of the People Act fur the establishment the alternative vote system, the absence which has gc* frequently in the past resulted ...

... form a new one in accordance with the Representation of the People Act, 1918. He was supported by Alderman Yearby, Councillor Ashwell, Mr. A. Moore, Mr. ©. B. Shaw, and ot Alderman Yearby ex the Redistri- bution Act es it affected (Leicester and St Margaret’s ...

... yesterday robuve report of the Boandaries Committee dealing with local rearrangements rendered necessary by the Representation of the People Act. The committee reported that far possible they had fixed the same places had hitherto been used as polling-st&tione ...

... with Councillor F, C. Parker as his colleagne. Since Captain Collier and Major Chapman-Huston were chosen, the Representation of the People Act has reduced Northampton from two-member to a one-member constituency, and only one candidate will therfore needed ...

... new register, when will contain about 125,000 num, compared with 45,894 on tlie one last published before the Representation the People Act was paaaed. Women comprise from 38 per oent. the total. ...

... NEW REGISTER INCLUDES NEARLY SEVEN MILLION WOMEN. A return of electors on the first register under the Representation the People Act, 1918, for constituencies in England and Wales, issued Mat night, discloses grand aggregate voting strength of 17,225 ...

... LONDON'S WOMEN VOTERS. Figures in the Boroughs. Whatever may be the effect of the new Representation of the People Act in the City of London, the figures for which are not yet forthcoming, in many of the metropolitan boroughs the change will be very great ...