The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-22
German Election Returns Are Too
incomplete to Indicate Defi-
mite Results.
MANY WOMEN VOTED
New National Assembly VIII Frame
Constitution, Method of Eiecting
President and Act On
Peace Treaty.

Berlin, Jan. 22.-Based on In
complete returns, the majority So
cialists had from 43 to As per cent
of the total vote in the election.
With the independent socialists
and the German democrats, the
majority socialists will constitute
the left of the national assembly
with 65 per cent of the seats. The
democratic party has made an ex-
cellent showing and may outstrip
the centrists in the final count.
Copenhagen, Jan. 22.-Incomplete
returns from the German elections
show that the democrats polled 1924
041 votes; majority socialists, 2,603,-
422; independent socialists, 401,1S7
Christian peoples party, 1,110,137;
the German peoples party, 266,157;
and the conservatives, 467,367, accord
ing to advices received by the Ber-
lingskc Tidende.
While the majority socialists will
have the ascendancy over any other
single party, the results indicate the
bourgeois parties together will have
a majority in the national assembly.
Paris, Jan. 22.-Returns of the cleo
tion for the German national assem-
bly, for the Third Electoral district
of Baden show the majority Social
lists to have won five seats, the Gen.
trist party FIVE seats, the German Ma
tionalist party one seat and the Ger
man Democratic party three seats.
The votes cast were: Majority So
cialists, 362,94S; Centrists, 3S0,e44;
German Nationalists, 1876, and Ger
man Democrats, 226,S11.
In the Karlsruhe district the Ne
jority Socialists cast 44SS7 votes, the
Centrists 1850, the Nationalists 8S3
and the German Democrats 24,S03.
Among the well known Germans
elected in Baden were Konstantin
Reichstag, and Dietrich, Haase and
Wirth, members of the Reichstag In
Wurtemberg, Matthias Trzberge",
Frederick Won Payer, former vice
chancellor, Adolph Rocher and Herr
Kehl were elected.
Results Still incomplete.
The first results are too incomplete
to permit of any opinion being ex-
pressed as to the significance OF the
election, but the old National Liberal
party virtually has disappeared in
Baden and Wurttemberg, where the
Centrists, Majority Socialists and Ger
many Democrats alone have been sue
cessful.
For the purposes of the election
Germany was divided into 3S districts
which theoretically would elect 43a
representatives to the national as
sembly. However, as elections were
not held in Alsace-Lorraine, the mum
ber was reduced by IL from this cause
and it was still further reduced by the
| fact that as Posen is occupied by
| possible.
100000 Women Voted.
The total number of electors is Civ
en- In round numbers as 100000 mer
and 21,000,000 women. Each party
was privileged to nominate in eacf
district as many candidates as there
were deputies to be elected. Electors
were permitted to strike out a name OF
names on a ballot, but could not in
| sert others to replace them.
The voting, under the German
scheme, is based on proportional repre-
sentation, so that each party elects
representatives in proportion to the
vote cast.
| The first task of the national assem-
bly,, the German advices show, will bt
to draw up new constitution definin.
the form of government and the meth
cd of electing president of the ro
public. Another will be to ratify tn,
treaty of peace.