On This Day, 30 December 1918

Evening Despatch 

Monday 30 December 1918

ELECTION GOSSIP.

Of the 17 women candidates only one was elected—Countess Markievicz, who won St. Patrick’s, Dublin City, as a Sinn Feiner. Although opposed by two Nationalists she secured a majority well over 3,000.

The other women candidates, with the votes they received, were:—

Smethwick: Miss Pankhurst (Co.)… 8,614

Stourbridge: Miss Mary Macarthur (Lab.)…7,587

Battersea: Mrs Despard (Lab.)… 5.634

Portsmouth: Miss Garland (L.)… 4,283

Mansfield: Miss Markham (L.)…4,000

Richmond (Surrey): Mrs. Dacre Fox (Ind.)…3,615

Rusholme: Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence (Lab.) 2,985

Chelsea: Miss Phipps (Ind.) 2,419

Hendon: Mrs. How Martyn (Ind.)… 2,057

Enfield: Mrs. McEwan (L.)…1.957

Ladvwood: Mrs. Corbett Ashby (L.)…1,552

Brentford: Mrs. Strachey (Ind.)…1,263

Bridgeton (Glasgow): Miss Murray (Ind.)…991

Belfast (Victoria): Miss Carney (S.F.)…395

University Wales: Mrs. MacKenzie (Lab.)…176