You have not seen the last of my bonnet and me."
It was perhaps to guard against any falling off in the Liberal Majority that on May 7th, two days before the Dundee poll, Mr. Asquith announced in the House of Commons that the establishment of Old Age Pensions was to be the outstanding feature of the forthcoming Budget. On polling day, May 9th, Liberal men and women stood beside the Suffragettes at the polling booths with handbills which were adapted from those of the Suffragettes, and read "Vote for Churchill, and never mind the women," and "Put Churchill in and keep the Women out."
As had been a foregone conclusion, Mr. Churchill was returned by a large majority, but he received more than 2,000 votes fewer than Mr. Robertson, his predecessor, had done at the last election, and, whilst fifty-eight per cent. of the recorded votes had been cast for Mr. Robertson, Mr. Churchill only received forty-four per cent. of the total, and therefore represented a minority of the electors.
The figures were:[26]
| Mr. Winston Churchill, Liberal | 7,079 |
| Sir G. Baxter, Unionist | 4,370 |
| Mr. G. H. Stewart, Labour | 4,014 |
| Mr. E. Scrymageour, Prohibitionist | 655 |
At the General Election the figures had been:
| Mr. E. Robertson, Liberal | 9,276 |
| Mr. Alex. Wilkie, Labour | 6,833 |
| Mr. Henry Robson, Liberal | 6,122 |
| Mr. E. Shackleton, Unionist | 3,865 |
| Mr. A. D. Smith, Conservative | 3,185 |
The results of the other elections which had been fought meanwhile, were as follows:
Dewsbury polling day, April 23rd.