By L. J. Sharpe
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Characteristics of Candidates The eighteen contested wards had a total offorty-four candidates, thirty of whom had previously contested elections. Twenty-three of these thirty had at some time been members of the council, seventeen of them were defending their seats and two were aldermen. The remaining seven veteran contestants Bradford had always been defeated. The fourteen inexperienced candidates included few with good prospects of election. However, one inherited a safe Conservative seat and three of them made gains for Labour.
Although most wards are normally 'safe', on the average between 1960 and 1963 about twenty-five wards were contested annually. Several majorities have been small, and sometimes one cannot be sure that a Liberal or a candidate from a minor party will not make a decisive difference. The Parties Although the Citizen Party is composed only of council members, for selection and electoral purposes it uses the Conservative organisation. Leaders of the Citizen Party may hold office in the city and constituency Conservative organisations, while Conservative divisional agents act as agents for Citizen municipal candidates.
The Evening Post, owned by the same company, was founded in I932 by local resources against the imperialism of the newspaper magnates and claims to be 'the paper that all Bristol asked for and helped to create'. It is less regional and more local and, with a circulation of nearly 2oo,ooo, more popular and widely read than the Press. , opponents of capital punishment, and coloured people, who are often either ignored or treated sensationally in the press. It was a liberalising factor, but did not support Labour in the election, and many Labour members regard it with suspicion.