If the main result of the election was, like the
Great War, a defeat without a victory, so also the individual results arc more notable for those candidates whom they excluded from the House than for those whom they admitted. The first point to be noted is that the Liheral gains were entirely made by the old Independent Liberal Party and not by Mr. Lloyd George's followers. Indeed, it is in this latter group that the most notable gaps have occurred. It will be widely regretted that Mr. Winston Churchill and Mr. Hilton Young both failed to secure election. The same can hardly be said for sonic of the other National Liberal casualties, such as Mr. McCurdy, Sir Hamar Greenwood, and Sir Alfred Mond. But even these names do not complete the list of prominent National Liberals who have gone down— Sir William Edge, Sir -Robert Hutchison, Mr. Shakespeare, and Sir Ryland Adkins must all be added.
