A total of 40 Jewish candidates from both major parties were elected to Parliament, according to results of the nationwide elections here which gave Prime Minister Harold Wilson a decisive majority in the House of Commons.
All of the Jewish candidates were elected in constituencies with little or no Jewish voters, while areas with heavily Jewish populations invariably sent non-Jews to Parliament.
All Fascist candidates were not only decisively defeated in the balloting but forfeited their deposits in every case. Deposits are forfeited when the candidate receives less than one eighth of the total votes cast in the constituency.
Among those elected to the new House were both of the Jewish Conservatives who held seats in the last Parliament — Sir Keith Joseph and Sir Henry d’Avigdor Goldsmid. The latter is president of the Jewish Colonization Association.
The Jewish Laborites elected included Emanuel Shinwell, Sir Banett Janner, Sir Meyer Galpern, Maurice Edelman, Ian Mikardo, Marcus Lipton, Sam and Jon Silkin, David Weitzman, John Diamond, Leslie and Harold Lever, John Mendel son, Julius Silverman, David Guinsberg, Maurice Orbach, George Jeger, Austin Albu, Frank Allaun, Joel Barnett, Reginald Freeson, E. Lyons, Dr. Kerr and Sydney Silverman, a former chairman of the World Jewish Congress in Britain.
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