Communist Party candidates in the General Election

The scan: The Week v5no15.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Tesseract OCR) from a scan of a stencilled typescript and has not been corrected. Expect misread words; titles in particular are often garbled where the issue printed no contents list. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: capitals heading; heuristic; title from the issue's contents list (match 0.80).

The British Communist Party made no progress on the parliamentary road in the General Election, all 57 candidates losing their deposits. To see how they fared, one just has to compare the votes obtained this year, with the votes obtained in 1964, in the 35 constituencies which the C.P, contested both years, The results were: Constituency . 1964 vote 1966 vote Change Aberavon 1,260 1,620 +360 Coventry (East) 1,138 1,368 +230 Dunbarton (East) We | 1,548 -223 Fife (West) 3,273 1,542 aes Govan (Glasgow) 1,378 1,103 =275 Goole 1,165 952 =213 Hornsey 1,255 1,184 ~74 Scotland (liverpool) 725 779 +54 Batersea (North 471 650 +179 St. Pancras (North) 1,140 1,253 +113 Stepney 2,454 2,209 -245 Openshaw 1,947 1,473 -465 Motherwell 1,565 1,508 -57 Newcastle upon Tyne 532 404 -128 Pontypool 1,329 897 =432 Sheffield Brightside 1,356 989 -367 West Lothian 610 567 -43 Willesden (West) 1,130 1,140 +10 Birmingham Small Heath 926 477 -449 Dagenham 1,070 py ae +303 Dundee (West) 1,229 1,217 -12 Gorbal's (Glasgow) 1,339 819 -520 Springburn 950 867 -83 Hayes and Hastington 873 695 | -178 Leeds (South) 928 714 =214 Llanelly ~ ty hg O61 1,211 +150 Islington (South West) 1,377 756 -621 Southwark 1,594 1,404 -190 Luton 567 586 pioder © 6 Mitcham 657 5'0 -77 Neath 3 2,432 1,632 -800 Nottingham (North) . - 1,579 1,070 -509 Rhondda 3,385 2,348 -1,037 Swindon 944 838 -16 Wigan 988 B56 -130 Total : 46,405 38,741 -7,664

or a loss of 16.5%

These figures must be very worrying for the C.P, leaders as this was the most expensive election campaign they have ever run, involving a tremend pus amount of work for hundreds of C.P. members.