U.K.:ELECTION CAMPAIGN ENTERS FINAL STAGES WITH POLLING DAY FIVE DAYS OFF

Record ID: 347347

  • Title: U.K.:ELECTION CAMPAIGN ENTERS FINAL STAGES WITH POLLING DAY FIVE DAYS OFF
  • Date: 11th October 1964
  • Summary: 1. GV HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. 0.05 2. CU SIGN ANNOUNCING A PROCLAMAT OF PARLIAMENT. 0.13 3. SV PORTRAIT OF LORD HOME (VOTE CONSERVATIVE). 0.18 4. CU ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE POSTER. 0.21 5. CU PORTRAIT OF HAROLD WILSON (LABOUR). 0.26 6. CU POSTER: "LET'S GO WITH LABOUR" 0.30 7. CU SIGN "LIBERAL PARTY HEADQUARTERS" 0.33 8. S
  • Embargoed: 26th October 1964 12:00
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  • Location: LONDON, U.K.
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  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVA1G4YTBZRL6VK6TJ6I5KBM2C6A
  • Story Text: BRITAIN'S ELECTION CAMPAIGN -- WITH POLLING DAY ONLY FIVE DAYS AWAY -- HAS ENTERED ITS FINAL STAGE WITH THE HEATED BATTLE FOR VOTES BY THE THREE MAJOR PARTIES REACHING A PEAK OF INTENSITY.

    THE LEADERS OF THE THREE MAIN PARTIES, CONSERVATIVE, LABOUR, AND LIBERAL, HAVE EXPRESSED CONFIDENCE IN THE OUTCOME WHEN BRITAIN'S 36 MILLION STRONG ELECTORATE VOTES ON THURSDAY.

    SIR ALEC DOUGLAS-HOME, THE PRIME MINISTER, HAS SAID THE CONSERVATIVE WILL WIN "DECISIVELY". MR HAROLD WILSON, LABOUR'S LEADER, HAS CLAIMED HIS PARTY IS "POSED FOR A GREAT VICTORY", WHILE MR JO GRIMOND, THE LIBERAL, HAS DECLARED THAT HIS PARTY WILL INCREASE ITS REPRESENTATION IN THE 630-SEAT HOUSE OF COMMONS.

    A RECORD NUMBER OF MORE THAN 1700 CANDIDATES ARE CONTESTING ALL SEATS AND THE FINAL RESULT WILL DEPEND, MOST PROBABLY, ON VOTING IN ABOUT 60 MARGINAL SEATS, WHICH LABOUR MUST WIN IF IT IS TO ON SEAT THE CONSERVATIVES, WHO HAVE GOVERNED FOR 13 YEARS.

    OPINION POLLS DURING THE PAST FEW DAY'S HAVE SHOWN A SWING TO LABOUR, AND, IF THEY ARE A TRUE BAROMETER OF FEELING THROUGHOUT BRITAIN, THE INDICATION IS AT THE MOMENT THAT LABOUR MAY WIN.

    THE RESULT, OF COURSE DEPENDS ON THE ELECTORATE AND OF THOSE ENTITLED TO VOTE AN ESTIMATE FOUR OUT OF FIVE WILL DO SO; VOTES WHICH MAY GIVE THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY ANOTHER TENURE OF OFFICE FOR UP TO FIVE YEARS, OR PUT LABOUR IN OFFICE FOR THE FIRST TIME MORE THAN DECADE.

    (IN THE LAST HOUSE OF COMMONS, THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY HELD 336 SEATS; LABOUR 256; AND, THE LIBERAL PARTY 7.)
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