GERMAN ELECTIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 27, 1 August 1932, Page 7

GERMAN ELECTIONS

DAY PASSES' QUIETLY

NAZIS LACK MAJORITY

HITLER DISAPPOINTED

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BERLIN, 31st July. Brilliant sunshine favoured thS polling for the German elections, which was apparently the heaviest o« record. The day passed quietly in Berlin, in violent contrast to Saturday's many clashes, perhaps because twenty thousand police were ori duty in Berlin alone. Half the electors voted before 1 o'clock. Many sick were carried to the booths orf stretchers.

Dr. von Papen voted in' thd morning at a tavern near the River Spree. .President Hindenburg drove from his estate at Neudeck, in East} Prussia, and recorded his vote in the village school. He was cheered by; the villagers. \_ Field-Marshal Luden* dorff did not vote, but instructed his small following to boycott the.elec* tion.

It generally appears that the Nazi vote in the cities declined as compared with the Prussian Diet election* but" increased as compared with the 1930 Reichstag election. In the coun. try districts'the Nazis considerably; improved their position. In the work, ing class districts of the towns thei Red Flag with the hammer and sickle of the Communists outnumbered thei other emblems. The Socialist Red Flag with three arrows was also much in evidence. The Socialists in many; cases increased the votes recorded at? the Prussian election. The Centra parties were about stationary, the Nazi gains being at the expense oB the smaller and Right parties, whtf lost heavily. :

The returns at 10 o'clock suggest that the combined National and NazS vote will not give a majority, so thati the election is a bitter disappointment to Herr Hitler, as the Centr^ will hold the balance. ' After 28^ million votes had beer*, counted, the figures were:— "Nazi5'.........,.„..„ .173 Socialists ........... 102 Communists .-. ......, 70 Centre .......:..„«. 60 Nationalists .„ «■»»,...-. *27 Others .........«»..„. 29

In the Presidential election held lasfc April a total of 36,490,000 people cask their votes during the second ballot, "