U.S. ELECTION RESULTS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16886, 10 November 1922, Page 4

U.S. ELECTION RESULTS.

REPUBLICAN MAJORITY WIPED OUT.

| By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. fablo Association. NEW YORK, November 8. j While the election returns will not. lie known for several days following the election, the situation late or Wed nesday seems to have established the fact that twenty Democrats and fifteen Republicans have been elected for the | Senate, in which the stato of parties Republicans . . . 54 Democrats . . .42 The Republicans have a majority of only half that of the last Congress. Delayed returns make the standings in tiie House of Representatives difii ; cult to estimate, but the indications are • that the Democrats have wiped out the ! entire Republican majority of ICB. J The Democrats have also gained I oight or probably nine Governorships. Of the twelve women candidates for Congress, only one was elected. This was Mrs Winifred Huek, the Repnhli can candidate for Illinois, who succeeds | her late father. ! Wisconsin returned Mr Vitor Ber •' ger, n Socialist, who was ousted from | the last' Congress.