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...recorded an erosion of support for Wilson's Labor government, and things were not improved by the usual irritants of winter. All in all, it was a bad time for a test at the ballot box, but Wilson had called a by-election in the Yorkshire seaport of Hull, where in 1964 the Labor candidate had won by a mere 1,181 votes. Should the Hull seat be lost to the Tories, Wilson's majority in Commons would drop to a single vote...
...walked away with an amazing 5,351-vote plurality. Toby and Tory drew a scant 40.8% of the ballots, and Britnik Gott proved a rebel without a cause: he pulled only 253 votes, and had to forfeit his ?150 campaign deposit. Declared the Manchester Guardian: "The voters of Hull have given Mr. Wilson the clearest message of support he has had since the general election...
Tactical Advantage. Next question was whether Wilson would yield to pressure within his party and call a new national election while the tidelet was running in his favor. If Hull's results were typical of the nation, argued slide-rule savants, Wilson could count on a 150-seat majority in Commons. This was a highly questionable assumption, but whatever Wilson's chances, London bookies last week were giving 3-to-2 odds that a general election would be held before the end of March...
...mainly the Rhodesian crisis, the electorate has been increasingly nagged at home: increases in bread prices, wage disputes, inadequate gas supplies during winter cold spells, power failures. This week Parliament reconvenes, and the minor grievances at home will provide the Tories with fresh ammunition. This week, too, voters in Hull go to the polls in a by-election for a seat won by Labor the last time by a scant 1,000-odd votes. The Tories have a fair chance of snatching it away-and reducing Wilson's parliamentary hold to a perilous majority...
Last week against fourth-place Toronto, Hull sent a 35-footer whistling past Goalie Terry Sawchuck for his 32nd goal in 34 games, as the Black Hawks won, 5-3. That gave him a 13-point lead over Detroit's Frank Ullman in the scoring race-and, with 36 games still to play, a clear shot at the N.H.L. record of 50 goals in one season, which Hull shares with Montreal's Maurice Richard and Boom Boom Geoffrion...