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Coalition which had taken place overall. One historian has written of Mrs Lucas’ result that she was ‘probably the first woman to discover that there is nothing like bereavement, injury or childbirth to commend a candidate to the British electorate.’
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newspaper reported on polling day that ‘....very little interest is being taken in the contest and a visitor to the constituency would have difficulty in knowing that an election is in progress.’
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