U.S. ELECTIONS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 November 1924, Page 5

U.S. ELECTIONS.

FURTHER DETAILS

COOLIDGE’S GREAT MAJORITY.

Bfr CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Nov. 8, 9.55 a.nh ' NEW YORK, Nov. 6.

The election check up so- far shows that Mr Goolidge’s popular vote was 15,000,000 and the electoral vote 379. Mr Davis’ popular vote was 8,171,000, and the electoral vote 189. He carried Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georfgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mixico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia. Mr La Follette’s popular vote was 4,136,000, and the electoral vote thirteen. He carried only Wisconsin. Mr Coolidge’s popular plurality totals 6,829,000. The. Republicans elected, nineteen senators and the Democrats thirteen. The Senate will probably be constituted of fifty-four Republicans, forty-one Democrats, and one Farmer-Labour. This would give Republicans, despite the presence of Messrs Ladd, Norris, Frazier, and Lafollette, so-called Radicals, a working majority of four. The. House of Representatives will probably lie cpnstituted of 242 Republicans, 194 Democrats, three FarmerLabour, and two Socialists, compared with the present Congress of 220, Refiublicans, 207 Democrats, one Farmerjabour, one Socialist, one /ndependent, and five vacancies.

The Republicans elected twenty-one State Governors and the Democrats twelve.

The Ku Klux Klan appears to have gained notable victories in many States, the following candidates which it supported being elected: Governors for Indiana and Kansas, Senator, Governor and complete State ticket for Colorado, Senator for Oklahoma, and many candidates in Montana. It suffered defeat in Texas, where Mrs Ferguson was elected Governor, despite Xian apposition. Mr Lafollette ran second to Mr Coolidge in eleven States, and in seven States his vote was larger than Mr Wilson’s in 1912. Three women were elected to the Wisconsin State Legislature and live in New Jersey. Kentucky re-elected Representative Langley under two ■'•ears’ sentence for violation of the prohibition laws. Mr Smith emerges as the natural leader of the Democratic Party, being the only J)emocrate on the State ticket elected for New York, which otherwise is overwhelmingly Republican.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn .

PRESIDENT OOOLIDGE. WELL AHEAD. ANOTHER LADY GOVERNOR, NEW YORK, Nov. 6. With forty-five Congressional districts not reported, Republicans have won 218 seats. including if&rly a score from the La Follette insurgents. Democrats won 170 ..nd Farmer-Labour two, showing a. nett Republican gain of sixteen over Democrats. With six contests uncertain Republicans won seventeen and Democrats eleven, giving the Republicans a gain of three seats in J ue Senate. With four States <thl doubt -Ml, President CoolicJge lias thirty States, with 367 Electoral College votes; Air Davis twelve States, with 136 "otes and Senator La- Follette, one State with -thirteen votes. The latest ounts concede the election of Mrs P .ss as Governor of Wyoming.