The BBC Follows the Poll Sam Pollock tells you how the General Election will be covered in up-to-the-minute broadcasts

IN TELEVISION ON the evening of Polling Day, October 8, BBC Television embarks on the biggest and most complex operation it has ever undertaken-an operation dwarfing even its effort on the occasion of the last General Election in 1955, which was itself a record. No fewer than fifty-seven cameras-twenty more than in 1955-will be mobilised for the task of giving the viewer not only the speediest results service possible, with a continuous flow of authoritative comment, interpretation, and analysis, but of enabling him as results are declared, and without moving from his armchair, to make a nation-wide tour of keypoints and centres of interest in the electoral battle. As in 1955, the headquarters and hub of the operation will be the studio (equipped for the occasion with nine cameras-the normal maximum complement of the largest studio is four), from which at 9.15 p.m. will again introduce the most experienced pair of election commentators and .analysts in Britain: David Butler, whose standing as a psephologist (a word many of us first became acquainted with in connection with his work) has practically made him Britain's 'Mister Election'; and Robert McKenzie, whose British Politi- cal Parties has become a standard work on our party system-not to mention his distinction as a commentator on world affairs. As the results come in, Butler and McKenzie will help the viewer more fully to appreciate their significance with a running fire of comment IN SOUND and analysis, with sidelights on local backgrounds and personalities, with an equally full service of results, comment, analysis footnotes on ' swings' and trends as they emerge. In assessing the latter, MEANTIME, and Polling Day ' actuality,' lacking only visual illustration, will be David Butler and his backroom team-mates will be assisted by one of the available for listeners. Preceded by the of the voting latest electronic which will provide the studio team with a story day's computers, from reporters throughout the in Britain at the Polls complete analysis of the significance of each result within seconds. country (Home Service, 9.15 p.m.), broadcasting of results will start at about 10 p.m. and continue until after 4.0 a.m. The centre of this operation will be four Reactions Throughout the Country desks in the News Room at Egton House, each of which will have its of At the party headquarters, to interview leaders and report will alphabetical quota constituencies, and will receive and check the Press reactions, Association be Kenneth Harris and Derek Hart, who will also appear in the studio tape notification of results before passing them to studios for from time to time. Derek Hart will not be the only member of the broadcasting. Tonight team taking part. Also in the studio will be , Every quarter-hour from 11p.m. summaries of the state of the parties, who will present interviews, reactions and comment, from all parts of the compiled at another desk in Egton. will be broadcast, and there will be country. Amongst other Tonight regulars who will form part of the corps expert comment on and interpretation of trends and ' swings,' contributed of reporters deployed throughout Britain will be Alan Whicker, Fyfe by Dr. Norman Hunt, Guy Eden, Hugh Benington, Stephen Parkinson, Robertson, John Morgan, and Trevor Philpott. Robert Kee, David Cole- and Walter James. As with television, it may not be possible to offer man, and Raymond Baxter are other TV personalities who will swell the these regularly during the spate of results, but they will be broadcast from ranks of a band of reporters such as has never before been mustered for time to time as the opportunity occurs. one television operation. And of course all the BBC's regional head- In the Light Programme, the service on Polling Day is designed more quarters will once more be making their frequent contributions of for those who, while wishing to keep abreast of the election battle at local comment and analysis throughout the night. In addition, well- intervals, do not want the full, continuous, and detailed information known figures, among them Lord Boothby, Herbert Morrison (recently provided by the Home Service. On Election night the Light Programme made a Life Peer), and Alan Bullock, will be dropping into either the will pursue its normal course until the News Summary at 11.30 p.m. London or regional studios to give their reactions. After this News Summary, listeners to the Light will be offered a pro- The first result is expected soon after 10 p.m. Although it is not gramme of light music continuing throughout the night and early morning known where this will come from, there is always something of a ' race ' until about 4.30 a.m. This will be interrupted punctually every quarter- between Billericay, Cheltenham. Exeter, and Salford to be the first con- hour for up-to-the-minute news of the Election, including the state of the stituency to complete its count and declare the poll, with this year parties, and at the hour and half-hour analyses of results so far. Southampton challenging as an outsider. Of this first result, and of pretty The following morning the news bulletins at 7 and 8 a.m. will be well to be declared 11 every other likely by p.m., it can be claimed that no immediately followed by successive editions of Election Newsreel, taking one apart from the respective returning officers will be ahead of BBC the place of the usual two editions of the magazine Today. These news- viewers in knowing them. Through Outside Broadcast cameras they will reels will contain a full review of the Election so far, including analytical be at the of the count and the present completion declaration. reports by the BBC Parliamentary Correspondent, Roland Fox, who, with The early trickle of results is expected to develop into a flood between his colleague, Conrad Voss-Bark, will be following the course of the 1 1 30 p.m. and 2 a.m., averaging three results a minute at its peak. During Election throughout. They will also include ' 'actuality' collected by this period everything but the briefest comment and analysis will be sus- reporters in the field and reactions from foreign capitals. They will end pended, to be resumed with the less heavy flow of results which is with a review of the morning papers, thus giving the listener a complete anticipated until approximately 4.0 a.m., when the service closes down. overnight account of the whole Election so far. BBC Television will be on the air again at 6.30 a.m. on Friday to At 10 a.m. on Friday the Election story will be taken over by Network provide a situation report every half-hour and statement of the party Three, with further results as they come in and summaries of the state of positions. Then at 8 a.m. Richard Dimbleby and his team will continue parties every quarter-hour. If the Election has not been decided by 6 p.m., their service of results, analysis, Outside Broadcasts, and interviews, as on the Home Service will again take over. After the one o'clock news bulletin the Thursday, until 5 p.m. Throughout, the operation will be jointly con- in the Home Service on Friday there will be another Election Newsreel trolled from the gallery of Studio G by and giving up-to-date coverage on the same lines as the two in the morning. Michael Peacock. At 6.10 to 6.30 p.m. on Friday there will be a review Finally, after the 9 p.m. News in the Home Service, comment on the of the situation, and at 8 o'clock an Election round-up in which leaders Election and its result, from at home and abroad, will be presented in of the parties will take part. The People's Choice. Carlisle Denbigh (Denbighshire).... '' Chart for Recording the Con. 370 Nat. Lib. 4.641 Carlton (Notts.)...... Derby: Con. 6,857 North ...... Carmarthen Lab. 5,006 (Carmarthenshire) South ...... Lib. 3,333 (Lab. 3.069) Lab. 6.509 list the United Kingdom's 630 Borough and County constituencies, arranged in This is a complete of Carshalton ()...... Derbyshire: the results as are broadcast on Con. 11,505 North-East order for listeners and viewers who wish to record they alphabe';cal Cheadle (Ches.)...... lab. 17.344 in the in which they will be announced over Thursday and Friday/. The constituencies are shown form Con. 19,974 South-East...... Lab. 1,581 in this list is the name of the Party which won the seat and its Chelmsford (Essex) the air. Under each constituency Con. 5.149 West are given in brackets. Con. 6.756 majority at the 1955 General Election. Subsequent By-Election figures Cheltenham Con. 7.621 Devizes (Wilts.) STATE OF PARTIES AT THE DISSOLUTION, Chertsey (Surrey)...... Con. 2.075 Conservative 1 Labour � supporters 278 Liberal 6 Vacant seats 6 Con. 8,365 Devon: Conservative � supporters 339 Independent North ...... Chester (Ches.)...... Con. 5.226 BIRMINGHAM (cont.) Irigg (Lines.) Con. 11,002 (Con. 6.348) Dewsbury .« parking...... Lab. 5,021 Lab. 15,047 Ladywood Chesterfield...... Lab. 7,417 A Lab. Barkston Ash Lab. 8.811 Jrighouse � 7.854 Doncaster « Northfield Spenborough...... Chester-Le-Street Con. 1.660 Aberavon (Glam.) ... (W. Yorks.) Lab. 2.884 lab. 1.626 Con. 6,167 (Co. Durham) Don Valley (W. Yorks.)..... Lab. 16.297 lab. 24.732 Perry Barr...... IJrighton : Lab. 22.276 (Lab. 21.287) Aberdare...... Barnet (Herts.)...... Lab. 1.680 Lab. 23.366 Con. 10.729 Kemptown .Chichester (W. Sussex).... Dorking (Surrey)...... Con. 18,122 (Con. 13.654) Con. 12.509 Aberdeen: Selly Oak...... Con. 5.257 Barnsley Con. 6.720 Dorset ; North lab. 24.709 Pavilion Chigwell (Essex) Small Heath...... Con. 14,386 Con. 1.875 North ...... Lab 16.796 Barrow-in-Furness...... Con. 7,159 (Con. Lab. and Co-op. 7,960 Bristol : Chippenham (Wilts.) 3,102) South...... Lab. 2.759 Con. 6.695 South ...... Con. 7.190 Sparkbrook Central Con. 5.417 Barry (Glam.) Lab. 3.211 lab. 8.752 "Chislehurst (Kent)...... Aberdeenshire: Con. 7.363 Stechford...... Con. 3.870 West ...... North-East...... Con. 6.763 East...... Basingstoke (Hants.)...... Lab. 6.740 Lab. and Co-op. 876 Chorley (Lanes.)...... Con 1C.057 (Con. 6.328) Con 6.290 Yardley Lab. 1.338 Dover (Kent)...... West...... North-West...... Con. 3.018 Bassetiaw (Notts.)...... Lab. 3,124 lab. 1,655 ' Cirencester � Con. 10.928 Down : lab. 7. 498 Tewkesbury (Glos.) Bishop Auckland South Con. 12.978 North . Abertillery (Mon.) ��� Bath lab. 10.976 � lab. 21.518 (Co. Durham) Ulster U. 48.678 Con. 6.843 lab. 5.845 South-East...... Clackmannan � East Lab. South �.m Abingdon (Berks.)...... � ��Batley� Morley 8.047 Stirlingshire Ulster U. 18.297 Con. 8,634 Lab. 9.208 Blackburn Lab. 7.009 Lab. 489 West ... Con. 22.001 (Con. 14,162) Cleveland (N. Yorks.)...... Dudley ,«, Accrington...... Bebington Blackpool : Lab. 11.051 lob. 1.345 Con. 9.423 Bromley Lab. and Co-op. 181 Acton ...... North...... Con. 13.139 Clitheroe Dumfriesshire .." Beckenham...... Con. 16,030 (Lanes.)...... Nat. Lib. and Con. 9,078 Lab. 525 Con. 21.237 (Con. 12,176) Bromsgrove (Worcs.) Con. 4,944 South Dunbartonshire: Aldershot (Hants.)...... Bedford (Beds.)...... Con. 5,174 Coatbridge �Airdrie Con. 9.572 Con. 12,225 . Lab. 4,664 East...... Con. 4,941 Buckingham (Bucks.)...... Lab. 1.130 � Sale Con. 1,140 Altrincham Bedfordshire Blaydon (Co. Durham)..... Colchester (Essex)...... Con. 18.412 Lab. 12,523 (lab. 10,714) Con. 4,898 West Mid...... Buckinghamshire: South.. Lab. 1.952 Anglesey ... Con. 3.964 Con. 17,981 Colne Valley Lab. 4.568 Blyth Dundee: Lab. 23.093 .. South...... Burnley (W. Yorks.) Angus : Lab. 5.636 Lab. 3.596 East...... Lib and Con. 2.468 (Cornwall) Lab. 4.040 North � Mearns BodminCon. 7.659 Burton (Staffs.) Consett (Co. Durham) Lib. and Con. 10,193 '""Bedwellty (Mon.) Con. 2,973 West...... -- Lab. 23.692 Bolsover (Derbyshire) Lab. 15,755 Lab. 1.874 South...... lab. 22,019 � Radcliffe Bury Conway (Caernarvon)...., "Dunfermline Lib. and Con. 14,971 Belfast : ! Con. 3.749 Con. 4,824 Burghs .� Bolton: Ub. 7.976 Antrim: East...... Bury St. Edmunds Cornwall: North...... Ulster U. 13,897 East Con. 1,604 "Durham (Co. Durham)..... North...... "* (Suffolk) Lab. 15,772 Ulster U. 24.954 (Ulsler U. 5.260) Con. 3.511 Con. 4.570 Coventry: Durham: North-West..... South...... North...... West...... East...... lib. 4.813 Bute � North Ayrshire.... Ub. 14.006 Ulster U. 45,192 Ulster U. 18.680 Con. 9.155 Lab. 6.104 Argyll South...... Bootie...... North...... Con. 10,028 (Con. 5.1661 Ulster U 25.884 Lab. 1.438 tab. 3,173 Armagh...... West (Leics.) South...... Ulster U. 17,254 Ulster U 18.141 , BosworthLab. 4,100 Ub. 1,688 Arundel � Shoreham Belper (Derbyshire)...... (Lanarkshire)..... Crewe (Ches.)...... , Bothwell c Lab. 6.356 (W. Sussex) Lab. 6.099 Lab. 3.610 E Con. 19,992 � East Lothian..... Bournemouth Caernarvon Crosby...... Berwick Con. 15,436 Ashfield (Notts.J .... Con. 2,710 East �Christchurch (Caernarvonshire) Ealing, lab. 20.069 Con. 18.498 Lab. 9,221 Croydon: Berwick on Tweed North...... Ashford (Kent)...... West...... Caerphilly (Glam) North-East Con. 246 Con. 8.307 (Northumberland)...... Con. 16.784 lab. 18.672 Con. 8,481 Con. 6.277 South Ashton-under-Lyne...... Bradford: Caithness � North-West...... Con. 12,530 (Con. 6,159) Lab. 1,965 Bexley...... Con. 10.537 Con. East...... Sutherland...... Easington (Co. Durham).... 4.499 Ub. 25.257 Aylesbury (Bucks.)..... lab. 8.875 Con. 5.089 South...... Con. 5,761 *'" Billericay (Essex)...... Con. 6.700 Eastbourne Con. 4.206 North...... Cambridge...... (E. Sussex)..... Ayr (Ayrshire) Con. and Nat. lib. 69 Con. 7.106 Con. 14,218 Con. 6,140 Bilston South...... East Grinstead Lab. and Co-op. 7,008 Cambridgeshire...... Ayrshire: Lab. 3.710 Con. 3.974 [E. Sussex) ...«. Central Birkenhead . West Con. 16.700 167 Lab. 3.181 Cannock (Staffs.) D Con. Con. and Nat. Lib. 3.159 lab. 8.298 East Ham: Birmingham; Brecknockshire Dagenham North...... - South Canterbury (Kent)...... lab. 25.093 Lab. 8.209 All Saints...... � Radnorshire...... Con. 14.295 Ub. end Co-op. 5,545 lab. 1.307 tab. 7,541 Cardiff Darlington...... (Ub. 5,979) . Brentford �Chiswick...... Con. 2,581 South ...... Aston...... North...... 8,699 Lab. 8.262 Con. 2,105 Con. 9,185 Dartford (Kent)...... Ub. and Co-op. Lab. 4,198 Bridgwater (Som.)...... South-East...... Eastleigh (Hants.) �... Edgbaston...... Con. 545 B Con. 14,094 Con. 7.717 Lab. 3.240 Darwen (Lanes.)...... '" Con. 7,916 Ebbw Vale (Mon.)....�««. Hall Green...... Bridlington (E. Yorks.) West Lab 19.236 Banbury (Oxon.)...... "*" Con. 15,266 lab 4.962 Dearne Valley Con. 4,125 Con. 10,697 ... EccleS ,f»%MB9MMmamm* Handsworth...... "IBrierley Hill (Staffs.) . Cardiganshire...... (W. Yorks.) Banffshire ..... Lib. 8.817 Ub. 26.31a L.b. 2.32a Con. 8.306 Con. 10.285 Lab. 949 Liverpool ; IONDON tcoot.) Edinburgh i Glasgow i Hemsworth (W. Yorks.).... J Central Lab. 34.042 Edge Hill St. Pancras North...... Bridgeton lab. 1.120 Ub. 7,082 Ub. 939 lab. 8,101 Hendon: North...... Jarrow Exchange...... Shoreditch � East...... Cafhcart Lab. 10.402 lab. 7.186 Ub. 2.042 Con. 15.751 Con. 4.060 Finsbury...... Leith...... South...... Garston Lab. 16,284 (Lab. 6,9951 Central Con. 11.969 (Con. 4,304) Ub. 5.644 Lab. 6367 Con. 10.436 Southwark...... North Henley (Oxon.)...... Kirkdale Lab. 17,230 Craigton Con. 1,814 Con. 7,761 Con. 210 Con. 7.081 Stepney Pentlands Hereford ...... Lab. 21.944 Gorbals Lab. 10.107 Con. 7.485 Lab. 10.728 Stoke Newington � (Herefordshire)...... K Toxteth South Govan Con. 9,400 [Con. 2,150) North...... 4,640) Con. 4,539 Hackney Con. 12,887 ICon. Lab. and Co-op. 9,602 Lab. 10.088 Hertford (Herts.)...... Walton West...... Hillhead Con. 5.984 Keighley Con. 13,216 Lab. 3.403 Con. 2.862 Streatham...... Con. 10.458 Hertfordshire: Con. 12,268 ENmonton Ketterinq (Northants) Wavertree...... Lab. Kelvingrove Lab. 5.903 Vauxhall 7.038 Con. East...... Con. 15,620 2,888 (Lab. 1.360) Con. 6.518 Lab. 8.728 Enfield : Kidderminster (Worcs.)... West Derby...... Maryhill South-West Con. 8,224 Wandsworth: East...... Lab. 8.638 Con. 2,584 Ub. 7,701 Con. 6.969 Kilmarnock Central Pollok (Ayrshire).... Con. 1,093 West...... ' Hesfon � Lab. 8.341 Lianelly Con. 8.845 Woolwich: East...... Con. 11,518 isleworth King's Lynn (Norfolk).... (Carmarthenshire)..... Provan...... Con. 6,512 Con. 1.338 lab. 23,381 Ub. 10,346 Epping (Essex)...... Lab. 180 Con. 3,523 Hexham Woolwich: West...... Scotstoun...... Kingston-upon-Hull : London: Con. 1,880 Epsom (Surrey)...... Con. 428 (Northumberland) East Barons Court...... Con. 22.073 Con. 10,264 Ub. 12,706 �� Londonderry Shettleston lab. and Co-op. 125 Ulster U. 16.033 Erith and Crayford . Lab. 5.819 Heywood � Royton North...... Battersea North...... Lab. and Co-op. 8,618 Con. 590 Loughborough (Leics.)..... Springburn...... (Lanes.) Lab. 12.922 Lab. 4,263 Esher (Surrey)...... Lab. an Co-op. 5.773 Con. 3.210 West...... Battersea South...... Con. 20.642 lab. 5.523 Louth (Lines.) Woodside . High Peak (Derbyshire)... Con. 679 Con. 6.520 Essex: South-East...... Con. 4.303 Con. 5,442 Kingston-upon-Thames... Bermondsey...... Con. 6.690 Con. 14.965 Lowestoft (Suffolk) Gloucester Hitchin (Herts.) Lab. 17,400 Lab. 1,915 Eton � Slough Lab. 748 (Lab. 8.374) Con. 965 Kinross � West Lab. 2.443 Bethnal Green...... Ludlow (Salop) Gloucestershire : Holland with Boston Perthshire...... lab. and Co-op. 20,701 Con. 7,879 Exeter...... Con. 12,158 Con. 5,388 South...... , (Lines.) Brixton...... ��� Luton Con. 1.726 Nat. Lib. and Con. 9.083 Kirkcaldy Burghs...... Lab. 5.035 Lib. and Con. 4.418 Eye (Suffolk) - Lab. 7.469 Con. 889 West...... Honiton (Devon)...... Chelsea Lab. 4,020 Con. 14.741 Knutsford (Ches.)...... Con. 15.052 Con. 19,486 Goole (W. Yorks.) Horncastle (Lines.) Cities of London � Lab. 9,964 Con. 10,270 Westminster...... Gosport � Fareham...... Hornchurch Con. 18,044 Con. 12.486 Con. 1,372 Clapham M F Gower (Glam.) .. Hornsey lab. 225 Lab. 18.169 Con. 12.726 (Con. 3,131) Macclesfield (Ches.) � Deptford...... Con. 9.189 Falmouth Camborne... Grantham (Lines.) .. Horsham (W. Sussex)..... Lab. 11.453 (Cornwall) Con. 2,375 Con. 11.510 Maidstone (Kent)...... Dulwich Con. Lab. 1.047 Gravesend (Kent)...... Houghton-Le-Spring L Con. 1.851 7.406 Farnham (Surrey)...... Con. 2,909 Maldon (Essex)...... (Co. Durham)...... Fulham Cori. 550 Con. 10,906 Greenock Lab. 22.899 Lanark (Lanarkshire).... lab. 4,394 Farnworth (Lanes.)...... Lab. 1.033 (Lab. 2.694) Hove Con. 958 Greenwich...... Manchester: Ub. 6,598 Grimsby...... Con. 22.353 Lanarkshire: North..... Lab. 7,939 Ardwick...... Faversham (Kent)...... Lab. 3,522 Lab. 5.523 Central lab. 2.082 Lab. 59 Howden (E. Yorks)...... Hackney Guildford (Surrey)...... Con. 11.399 Lancaster (Lanes.)...... Lab. 11,800 Blackley Feltham Con. 11.328 Con. 4,549 Hammersmith: North. Con. 5,436 Ub. 3,350 Huddersfield : East...... Leeds: Lab. 8.863 Cheetham...... Fermanagh � Lab. 4.224 East Hampstead...... Lab. 8,531 S. Tyrone West Lab. 4,939 Con. 12,186 Exchange...... Sinn Fein candidate unseated Lib. 7.927 North-East:...... Holborn lab. 7.281 Ulster U. elected on petition � Con. 9.279 (Con. 5,869) St. Pancras South.. Gorton...... Fife: Huntingdonshire...... H Nat. Lib. and Con. 5,939 North-West...... Lab. 931 Lab. 269 East...... Con. 15.329 Islington: East...... Moss Side...... Lib. and Con. 15,232 Huyton (Lanes.) Con. 10.528 Ub. 2,558 South...... Ub. 6.702 West...... Halifax Ub. 12,016 North...... Openshaw...... Lab. 16.211 Con. 1,535 Islington: South-East...... Lab. 7.578 (Lab. 7,461) Ub. 8.042 Finchley Haltemprice (E. Yorks.).. L.b. 12.572 South-West Withington...... Con. 12.825 Con. 14.324 Islington: West .... lab. 13.268 Con. 12,653 Flintshire : Lab. 6.264 Hamilton (Lanarkshire)... Kensington : North.... Wythenshawe East...... Ub. 13,526 Leek (Staffs.) ... lab. 2.943 Con. 2.822 Ub. 2.274 Harborough (Leics.) ... I Lab. 1,059 Kensington: South.... . Mansfield (Notts.)...... West Con. 10.184 Leicester : Con. 25,247 Lab. 16.033 Con. 8.352 Yorks.)...... Harrogate (W. " llford: North-East Lewisham: North...... Melton (Leics.) Folkestone � Con. 16.541 Lab. 5.170 Con. 3,236 ILab. 1.110) Con. 10,780 (Con. 2.362) North...... Hythe (Kent)...... Harrow Con. 10.501 North-West ...... Lewisham: South...... Meriden Con. 11.002 Central Lab. 3.510 Lab. 6.343 (Warwickshire)...... Con. 8,041 South South-East .... Lewisham: West...... lab. 1.105 East...... Con. 6,478 Con. 11.541 (Con. 6.482) Con. 4,325 Merionethshire Con. 3.622 (Con. 2.220) Ilkeston (Derbyshire).... South-West...... Norwood...... Lab. 2.682 Lab. G West...... Ub. 21,693 4.489 Con. 5.032 Merthyr Tydfil Con. 18.297 Ince (Lanes.) .. Leigh .... Paddington: North... Lab. 18.082 Lab. 18,647 Ub. 11,956 Oainsborough (Lines.).. Hartlepools Lab. 2,092 Merton � Morden Con. 4,469 (Con. 1.006) Ub. 1.585 Inverness Leominster (Hereford).. South... Con. 6.390 Con. 8,747 Paddington: Galloway Harwich (Essex) (Inverness-shire)...... Con. 7.047 Middlesbrough: Con. and lib. 9.464 Con. 966 Lewes (E. Sussex) East...... (Kirkcudbrightshire). ... Con. 12,546 Peckham Con. 8.014 (Con. 6.483) Hastings Ipswich ' Lab. 13.768 Lab. 10.758 Con. 8.536 Gateshead : Lab. 3.582 (Lab. 7.737) Leyton West Lab. 8.204 Poplar Con. 7.361 Hayes and Isle of Ely Lab. 19,828 East...... Con. 6,446 � Lab. Harlington .... "Lichfield Middleton � Prestwich 4.947 Putney...... Lab. 6.118 Isle of Thanet (Kent).... Tamworth (Staffs.).. (Lanes.) West...... Lab. 3.105 Con. 7.195 Lab. 10.339 (Ub. 6,535) Hemel Hempstead Con. 12.289 Con. 10.107 .......... Lincoln .... St. Marylebone Gillingham .... (Herts.)...... Ub. 5,222 Con. 15,399. CONtmUEOi PAGI t Con, 4.14S Can. 6.136 Con, 12,637. "j 1Richmond (in Surrey) Smethwick...... Wembley i Midlothian...... Con. 12,955 Lab. 6,495 T Ub. 8.784 0 North Con. 10.109 Mitcham Richmond (N. Yorks.) Solihull (Warwickshire).... Con. 16.005 Con. 18,023 Taunton (Som.)...... South Con. 7.590 Ogmore (Glam.) Con. 5,542 (Con. 657) Lab. 22.524 Ripon (W. Yorks.) Con. 6.456 Monmouth (Mon.)...... Somerset: North...... Tavistock Oldbury � Halesowen Con. 12,065 Con. 4,183 (Devon)...... West Bromwich...... Con. 5.797 Con. 10,236 Lab. 5.055 Rochdale Lab. 10.020 Montgomeryshire...... Con. Southall The Wrekin Lib. 8.500 Oldham: 1,590 (Lab. 4,530) (Salop) Westbury (Wilts.) Lab. 6,335 Con. 478 Con. 3.389 Nairn...... East Rochester � Chatham...... Moray � Con. 380 Lab. Thirsk � Malton Con. 5.129 2.447 Southampton I West Ham: Morecambe � West...... Romford...... Itchen (N. Yorks.)...... North Lab. 3.899 Lab. and Co-op. 2,625 Lab. 5.771 Con. 14.085 lab. 16.537 Lonsdale (Lanes.)...... Con. 17,701 (Con. 11,231) Orknoy � Shetland Ross � Cromarty Test Thurrock (Essex) South lib. 7,993 Nat. Lib. 3.926 Con. 3.842 Lab. 15.329 Lab. 23.454 Morpeth Ormskirk (Lanes.) . Rossendale Tiverton (Devon)...... Western Isles (Northumberland)...... Con. 14.539 Lab. 2,911 Southend : Con. 10.424 Lab. 2.172 Lab. and Co op. 14,833 East Tonbridge (Kent)...... Orpington (Kent)...... Rotherham...... Con. 6,758 Westhoughton (Lanes.) Motherwell Con. 11,936 Lab. 11.541 Con. 10,196 (Con. 1,602) Lab. 10,052 (Lanarkshire)...... Rother Valley West...... Torquay West Lothian Ub. 2.885 Oswestry (Salop) Con. 18.460 (Con. 8,179) Con. 17.230 (Con. 10,581) Lab. 8.307 Con. 10.425 (W. Yorks.) Oxford Lab. 27.052 South Fylde (Lanes.) Torrington (Devon) Westmorland Con. 22,395 Nat. Lib. and Con. 9,312 Con. 13,147 Con. 7.778 Rowley Regis �Tipton..... (Lib. 219) Lab. 13,168 Southgate...... Weston-super-Mare Con. 18.210 Totnes (Devon) Roxburgh, Selkirk, Con. 11,594 (Som.)...... N Peebles Southport . Tottenham...... Con. 11.082 (Con. 9.976) Con. 7,170 Con. 17,441 Lab. and Co-op. 8.883 Whitehaven Nantwieh (Ches.)...... P Rugby (Warwickshire)...., South Shields Truro (Cornwall) (Cumberland)...... Con. 7,366 Lab. 1.378 Lab. 10.252 Con. 4,717 Lab. 6,194 (Lab. 6,324) Neath (Glam.) . Paisley . Ruislip-Northwood...... Twickenham...... Widnes (Lanes.) Lab. Sowerby (W. Yorks.) Lab. 21.114 6.098 Con. 11.555 Lab. 2.783 Con. 16,276 Lab. 1.449 Nelson � Colne . Pembrokeshire Runcorn (Ches.) Tynemouth Wigan...... t..... Ub. 2.291 Lab. 1,592 Con. 10,830 Spelthorne (Middx.)...... Con. 10.836 Con. 5.982 Lab. 14.872 (Lab. 17.167) Newark (Notts.)...... Penistone (W. Yorks.) . Rushcliffe (Notts.)...... Willesden: Lab. 2.141 Lab. 11.636 (Lab. 11,119) Stafford � Stone Con. 1,643 1 East...... Newbury (Berks.)...... Penrith � the Border Rutherglen (Lanarkshire).. (Staffs.)...... Lab. 659 Con. 8.656 Con. 7.237 (Cumberland) Con. 2,101 West Newcastle under Lyme... Con. 13.672 Rutland � Stalybridge � Hyde lab. 11.111 Lab. 6.745 Perth � East Perthshire... Stamford (Lines.)...... (Ches.)...... Wimbledon Con. Newcastle upon Tyne i 13,721 Con. 2,819 Lab. 155 u Con. 10,490 Central Peterborough Rye (E. Sussex) Stirling � Falkirk Winchester (Hants)...... Con. Ub. 13.003 (Northants)...... Con. 17.940 Burghs...... Ulster: Mid...... 11,236 East . Con. 3.238 Lab. 1,306 I SinnFein, declared void Windsor (Berks.)...... Ub. 1,822 (Hants)...... West...... (Ulster U. 4,481) Con. 10,724 Con. 14,090 Stirlingshire: North Lab. 3,167 "Uxbridge (Middx.) .. Wirral (Ches.) Lib. and Con. 10,933 Plymouth: Lab. and Co-op. 876 Con. 17,051 (Con. 6.462) s Stockport: Woking (Surrey)...... Devonport...... North...... West...... Con. and Nat. Lib. 100 Con. 12,467 Lab. 5.184 Saffron Walden (Essex).... Con. 4.567 Sutton Con. 6,418 Wokingham (Berks.)...... New Forest (Hants)...... Con. 3,810 South...... Con. 12,948 Con. 14.742 St. Albans (Herts.)...... Con. 4,086 Pontefract ,. Con. 5,721 Wolverhampton : i Lab. 22.463 Newport (in Mon.)...... Stockton-on-Tees North-East...... (Lab. 8.485) St. Helens Lab. 3,815 Lab. 9,209 Lab. 4.360 Pontypool (Mon.)...... Lab. 15.883 Lab. 16,572 (Lab. 13.727) (Lab. 11,994) Newton (Lanes.) Stoke-on-Trent : w South-West...... St. Ives (Cornwall) ' Con. 8,420 Lab. 7.955 Pontypridd (Glam.) Nat. Lib. and Con. Central ,. Lab. 17,163 7.335 Lab. 12,355 "Wakefield Norfolk: Lab. 9.745 � Woodford , . Poole ..Salford: North Con. 15.808 Central Con. 9,562 East...... Lab. and 'Wallasey and Con. 5,563 Co-op. 14,874 Wood Green...... Nat. Lib. Ub. 1.728 Con. 14,218 and Portsmouth : South...... Lab. Co-op. 3,712 North...... West...... Wallsend...... Ub. 1.242 Langstone: Ub. 13,264 .. Worcester...... Con. 14,155 Lab. 859 Lab. 9,350 Con. 6,102 South...... Stratford Walsall: Con. 1.475 South...... Salisbury (Wilts.) Worcestershire: South..... Con. 14,287 Con. 7,639 (Warwickshire)...... North...... Con. 12.980 South-West...... " Con. 13.312 Lab. 10.695 Lab. 193 (Lab. 1.354) West...... Scarborough � Workington Con. 3.669 Stretford...... South...... Whitby (N. Yorks.).... Con. 2.426 (Cumberland) Normanton (W. Yorks.)... Preston: Con. 11.834 lab. 7.928 Lab. 17.806 Con. 16.645 Walthamstow : North...... Stroud (Glos.) Worthing...... Northampton...... Con. 2.903 Sedgefield Con. 3,943 East Con. 21,875 Lab. 3.348 (Co. Durham)...... Con. 1.129 South...... Sudbury � Woodbridge Wrexham Northamptonshire i Con. 474 Lab. 8,853 West...... (Suffolk) .. Lab. 9.250 (Lab. 9,204) (Denbighshire)...... South...... � Pudsey .. Sevenoaks (Kent)...... Con. 7,190 Lab. 11,659 Con. 4,158 Con. 4.564 Con. 11,078 Warrington Sunderland: Lab. 5,646 Wycombe (Bucks.)...... North Fylde (Lancs.)..... Sheffield: Con. 7.940 Con. 14.660 North...... Warwick � Leamington Attercliffe Lab. 2.836 Northwich (Ches.)...... lab. 19.568 (Warwickshire) Con. South...... Con. 13.466 (Con. 2,157) 6.555 Brightside �� Con. 1,774 Norwich: R Lab. 15,404 Watford...... Surbiton Con. 1.717 Y North Hallam �� Con. 10,483 Lab. 6.595 Reading...... Con. and Lib. 14,739 Wednesbury...... Lab. 238 Surrey: East...... Lab. 8.944 (Lab. 12,236) Yarmouth (Norfolk)...... South Heeley Con. 24,709 Con. 917 Con. 1.758 " (Surrey) Con. and Lib. 11,051 Wellingborough 1 Con. 10.307 Sutton � Cheam...... (Northants.)... .. Yeovil (Som.)...... , Nottingham Hillsborough Con. 14,333 Lab. 926 Con. 4,266 Central .. Renfrewshire I Lab.and Co-op.7,010 Con. 758 East...... Sutton Coldfield ...Wells (Som.)...... York Con. 16.588 Park...... � Con. 17,987 Con. 5.879 Con. 1,104 North...... Lab. 18.339 Lab. 6.090 West...... Swansea: Lib. and Con. 4,040 Shipley (W. Yorks.)...... East...... South Con. 5,331 bulletins of General Election news broadcast Con. 7.053 Rhondda Ub. 17.472 The the BBC are the Joint Service of the West...... East...... Shrewsbury (Salop)...... West by Copyright Lab. 3.908 Lab. 17.315 Con. 7,593 Ub. 1.021 Press Association, Ltd., and the Exchange Telegraph are intended for reception only Nuneaton (Warwickshire] I. West...... Skipton (W. Yorks.) ,. Swindon -Co., Ltd., and private Ub. 10.284 Ub. 16.864 Con. 9,182 Ub. 3,939 The bulletins of General Election news broad cast by the BBCare the Copyright Joint Service of the Press Association, Ltd., and the Exchange Telegraph Co., Ltd., and are intended for private reception only

THURSDAY 9.15 to 4.0 a.m. 6.50 CAROLE CARR sings and accompanies herself Television's most experienced at the piano In a short programme team of commentators and of her favourite songs Presented by Kenneth Milne-Buckley reporters using 57 live (BBC recording) ELECTION cameras combine to bring you 7.0 JOAN REGAN the fastest and most says 'BE MY GUEST' comprehensive coverage of to you and to her star guests the Election Results in the first of three programmes Tonight she introduces: together with comment, FRANKIE VAUGHAN MAX JAFFA analysis, interviews, and BRIAN REECE Election scenes CATHERINE BOYLE Night BILLY DAINTY The Eric Robinson Orchestra (Leader, David McCallum) Musical arrangements by Ken Jones Script by BRAD Ashtom Settings designed by Lionel Radford Production by FRANCIS ESSEX (BBC recording) See page 9

7.45 SPY-CATCHER A series of true stories of the RichardDimbleby David Butler Robert McKenzie Cliff Michelmore search for spies in wartime Britain, based on the experi- ences of Lt.-Cot. Oreste Pinto 6�' LOUISE' Script by Robert Barr Designer, Richard Wilmot Film cameraman, Charles Parnall Film editor, John Griffiths Produced by TERENCE Cook

8.15 THE BLACK AND WHITE MINSTREL SHOW KennethHarris Derek Hart (The Fastest Show Alan Whicker Robert Kee In Black and White) starring THE MITCHELL MINSTRELS Conducted by George Mitchell and also starring STAN STENNETT MARGO HENDERSON DAISY MAY AND COMPANY Assisted by Saveen The Television Toppers The Peter Crawford Trio The Jackpots Dai Francis Tony Mercer John Boulter Dance direction by Larry Gordon Vocal arrangements by George Mitchell Musical arrangements by Alan Bristow and Ray Terry The Minstrel Orchestra conducted by ERIC ROBINSON Settings by Stanley Dorfman Devised and produced by George INNS

9.15 ELECTION RESULTS See panel Should other Important events occur there will be flashes from the News studio during the evening into this programme Television operation directed by GRACE WYNDHAMGOLDIE and MICHAEL PEACOCK 4.0 a.m. Close Dowa FRIDAY

From 6.30 a.m. Television's most experienced team of commentators and reporters combine to bring you the fastest and most comprehen- sive coverage of the Election Results, together with comment, analysis, Interviews, and Election scenes. RICHARD DIMBLEBY DAVID BUTLER CLIFF MICHELMORE ROBERT McKENZIE ALAN WHICKER DEREK HART KENNETHHARRIS ROBERT KEE with reports from 0

6.30 a.m. THE 5.15 WHIRLYBIRDS' * GENERAL ELECTION Matter of Trust' See above P. T. Moore...... CRAIG HILL Chuck Martin...... KENNETH TOBEY In this film, which is the first of a new series of Whirlybirds, Chuck and P.T. 11.20 app. FOR fly Mrs. Dudley to her log cabin for her THE SCHOOLS holiday. 70,000 dollars have been stolen from the bank where Mrs. Dudley Travel Talks works, and she is suspected. HUNTERS, HERDSMEN AND FARMERS 5.40 JUNIOR Land of the Tiwi SPORTSVIEW Filmed and introduced by presents Charles Mountford BIDING Film editor, Alan Martin with Pat Produced by PEGGIE BROADHEAD Smythe (First shown last Monday) and FISHING This programme may be cancelled SHARK should the result of the General with Bernard Venables Election be imminent at this time A special film programme giving tips from the very top in sport Film cameramen, 11.45 app. THE Alan Prentice and Tony Leggo GENERAL ELECTION Edited by Alan Tetzner Presented by A. P. Wilkinson See top of page Edited by Ronnie Noble

5.0 BLUE PETER 6.0 NEWS THE WEATHER Introduced by Christopher Trace and Leila Williams 6.10 THE Including GENERAL ELECTION ' Brigade of Guards '�5 See and top of page Dressing a Doll with Peggy Franks 6.30 GARDENING CLUB Produced by JOHN HUNTER BLAIR Apple and Pear varieties Storing fruit for the winter Renovations to the lawn RADIO TIMES welcomes your after the summer drought views on the programmes. Letters Pot plants for Christmas for publication should be addressed Cyclamen and varieties of Primula to the Editor, 'Radio Times,' with Thrower 35 Percy Marylebone High Street, Produced Paul W.l by Morby London, From the BBC's Midland television studio FRIDAY

8.0 ELECTION THE DAY'S TIMETABLE ROUND-UP 6.30-8.0 a.m. 8.0-8.45 p.m.- See panel on left Latest Totals Party TONY HANCOCK sitaatiM half-dear ELECTION 8.45 with a report every in ROUND-UP 8.0-11.20 a.m. HANCOCK'S The HALF-HOUR Election Results-as they come in Result in Perspective Written with for areas � by special reports particular ALAN SIMPSON and of Leaders SCOTLAND:8.10-8.25 a.m. Views Party featuring 9.10-9.25 a.m. � SIDNEY JAMES with NORTH:8.10-8.15 a.m. Comment and reactions John Le Mesurier 9.10-9.15 a.m. from at home and abroad Hugh Lloyd, William Mervyn WEST � WALES: 8.10-8.25 a.m. * Robert Parry 9.10-9.25 a.m. Doming, Penelope Introducedby Designer, Lawrence Broadhouse N. IRELAND:8.10-8.25 a.m. RICHARDDIMBLEBY Produced by DuNcAN WOOD 9.10-9.25 a.m. (BBC recording)

Television operation directed by MKNJOO 11.45 a.m.-5.0 p.m. 9.15 ADOLFHE GRACE WYNDHAM GOLDIE and Election Results-as they come in AND MICHAEL PEACOCK GLORIA SWANSON The bulletins of General Election news broad- in the film comedy 6.10-6.30 p.m. cast by the BBC are the Copyright Joint Service 'FATHER the Press Association, Ltd., and the Exchange Final Results and a general review of TAKES A WIFE* Telegraph Co., Ltd., and are intended for of the with situation private reception only. John Howard and Desi Arnaz Directed by Jack Hively MENJOU ON TRANSMITTERS SERVING THE AREAS: Senior...... ADOLPHE 7.35 ' THE THIRD MAN' Leslie Collier...... GLORIA SWANSON 6.50 News for Scotland, Northern A new film series Junior JOHN Howard Carlos Desi ARNAZ Ireland, and the starring English Regions Aunt Julie...... HELEN BRODERICK MICHAEL RENNIE News from Wales: 6.55-7.0 Enid...... FLORENCE Rice as Harry Lime When father takes a wife, and she is a in celebrated but temperamental actress, it ' is the son who has to the The Man provide sound 7.0 ' FLYING and sensible advice that finally leads to STANDARDS' Who Died Twice' domestic bliss-but not before everyone else has had of riotous fun. Bradford Webster....JONATHAN HARRIS plenty The All-Time Hit Parade Marta...... ILKA WINDISH RUDOLFO Hoyos featuring Corrales 10.30 NEWS BATANIDES SHIRLEY EATON Grey...... ARTHUR Price...... JOHN HOLLAND Jo Shelton, Sylvia Sand's Parker...... HOWARD CULVER 10.45 MAKE WAY Johnny Hartman, Steve Arlen Maid...... NORA O'MAHONY Lee...... Kam TONG FOR MUSIC The Three Barry Sisters and presenting and Story teleplay by The music of A. J. CAROTHERS Alyn Ainsworth Directed Paul and KEN MACKINTOSH by Stanley the his assistant Brad have BBC Northern Dance Orchestra his Saxophone and Orchestra Harry Lime and discovered a body in their hotel room, in thirty minutes of music Musical associate, Bert Waller but the discovery is no sooner made in an informal manner Eleanor Fazan than the body disappears. This embar- Staging by with rassing situation leads directly to a hot- songs by Designer, Cephas Howard bed of political intrigue in South Sheila Buxton Production by STEWART MORRIS America. and See 9 film page (BBC release) Roberto Cardinali and Norman George with his violin 'FLYING STANDARDS' Introduced by Roger Moffat Produced by BARNEY COLEHAN From the BBC's Ken North of television studio Mackintosh (BBC recording) and 11.15 THE PHIL SILVERS SHOW Shirley starring Eaton PHIL SILVERS They ore two of the as Sergeant Bilko in stars in tonight's ' Bilko the Genius ' Bilko persuades a scientific genius to Ail-Time design a special rocket for a special Hit Parade racket. But when they launch it, the balloon goes up! AT 7.0 11.40 Weather and Close Down