GERMAN ELECTIONS REVEAL HEAVY VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS AND SOCIALISTS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7425, 9 June 1920, Page 3

GERMAN ELECTIONS REVEAL HEAVY VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS AND SOCIALISTS

Women Vote In Same Proportion as Men

-. fi'-.yraiih—lV--3 Association— Copyright Ui' ' Rec lii 111; 9. morning Berlin. June 7 -r^e votes in connection with , .Qcrman flections, which have nfar been counted, ate distribuf d &> follows: Independent Socialists, 3,647,000; Social ■Democrats, 3,522,000; Peoples party, 2,636,000 ; National Party, Centre jParly, 'I, 8O3,OOe; Democrats 1,626,000 ; Communists, 528.000. Out of 160 mem ours elected 48 ar g Independent Socialists, 44 Social Democrats, 29 Nationalist, 20 Central Party, and 14 Democrats- . . . , . r These elected include Von Eichorn, Lodebour, Ba ue r, •'Schneidemann, Hofferick, and Erzberger. The women voted in the same proportion as the men, Australian and M.Z. Cable Association. Rec June 9, 945 a.m. Berlin, June 8 The prospects of the maintenance of the Coalition are small unless a reconciliation is effected between the Socialist wings, which the Socialist organ "Vor.waerts" recommends to be adopted. The "Lokal Anzieger" says the only success achieved by the Government in the elections lays in-.the fact that order was not disturbed, except in one municipality in Pomerania, where the Independents burned the ballot papers. — -•—.