Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1920-11-04
WHAT WE VOTED
FOR THIS week
The Nation Awaits Returns On
Many Varied and Unusual
Issues.
NUMEROUS PARTIES
Tuesdays Ballots Named Governors,
Representatives and Senators, and
Voiced Popular Will on
Many Statutes.

New York.-The national and state
elections held this week were notable
for the number of women nominees and
the large number of parties which had
candidates.
Six parties had national tickets for
president and vice president, though
by no means in all the states. These
tickets were Republican, Democratic
Socialist, Prohibition, Farmer-Labor
and Single Tax. About IL other par
ties had candidates either for state
tickets or for representatives in con-
gress, bringing the total of all parties
In the field nearly to score.
In the presidential election there
were chosen 531 members of the cleo
tOral college Of which 288 will be nec-
essary to the election of q candidate as
president. In the last election Presi-
dent had 277.
The present membership of the
United States senate is SO, composed
of Al Democrats 48 Republicans and
one progressive. This year 81 states
elected "a senators, the terms of 80
members Of that body expiring on
March 3, 1921, while the other two are
being selected to fill unexpired terms
up to March 4, 1925. OF the SO sena-
tors whose terms expire next March
IL are Democrats and Is Republicans.
The two additional vacancies were
caused by the deaths of Senators
Bankhead of Alabama and Martin of
Virginia, both Democrats. One sena-
tor was chosen in each of the 30 states
except in Alabama, which elected 2.
The only states which did not elect
senators were Delaware, Maine, Mas
sachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mis-
sissfppi, Montana, Nebraska, New Jer-
sey, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Ten.
nessee, Texas, West Virginia and
Wyoming.
Women candidates for the senate
ran In six states: by the Prohibition
lists In Indiana, New York and Penn
sylvania; by Socialists in California,
by the Farmer-Labor party in New
York and Connecticut and by Inde-
pendents in Nevada. =.
Socialists had candidates for the
senate in II states.
The total membership, 435 Of the
next house Of representatives was
elected. OF this number, 21S is neces-
sary for majority. The present men,
bership is: Democrats, 100; Republic
cans, 232; Independent Republicans,
2; Independent, 1; Prohibitionist, L;
vacancies, 8. Women were nominated
as candidates for representatives in ut
least II states.
Governors were elected in 81 states
while elections for lesser state offices
were held in seven others.
Probably the banner state for the
number of candidates for governor was
Illinois, where 10 parties named can
didates for that office, including the
Democratic, Republican,, Socialist, So
cialist Labor, Farmer-Labor, Single
Tax, Prohibition, Cooperative Party
of America, Liberal Party and Hard
ing-C Coolidge Republican.
The Socialist Party had candidates
Tor governor in 10 states.
Prohibitionists had nominated gov
ernors for seven states. The Socialist
Labor party also had candidates for
governor in seven states. The Farm
er-Labor party In nine and Single Tax
party in two.
Many women ran for office on state
tickets,
Constitutional amendments were
voted upon in % states. There were
referendums in IL and initiatives IN
four.