BERLIN ELECTIONS
BOURGEOIS GROUP GOES DOWN
VICTORY FOR SOCIALISTS AND
COMMUNISTS,
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (REUTERS TELEGRAM.)
(Received 27th October, 11.30 a.m.)
BERLIN, 26th October
The election of the Berlin Municipal Council, in which 1,750,000 people, or 60 per cent, of the electorate, voted, resulted in a victory for the Socialists and Communists, who together polled nearly a million votes, against three-quarters of a million for the other parties. The council has hitherto had a small bourgeois majority, counting all the parties except the Socialists and Communists. The Communists doubled their poll as compared with the last election in 1921. . The Socialists and German Nationals generally maintained their positions, but the People's Party lost ilyThere were the usual clashes between rival factions in the streets, aiid many people wore slightly injured. A number of rioters ■were arrested.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 102, 27 October 1925, Page 5
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136BERLIN ELECTIONS Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 102, 27 October 1925, Page 5
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