Evening star., 1946-12-29
By the Assoeiofed Press

| A total of 35, ,874 ,568 persons voted
in the November off-year election
| in which the Republicans out
polled the Democrats in 80 States.
Official figures gathered and tabu-
lated by the Associated Press showed
last night that the aggregate vote
compiled from the highest in each
State whether for Senator, Repre-
sentative, Governor or other State
ofncer-was:
/. An increase of 5,849, ,641 over
that cast in the last off-year elec-
ton of 1942-a war year-but l.
429,812 under the record for off,
year balloting established in the
previous peacetime year of 1888.
| 2. Slightly above the prediction
vote estimate of 35,421 ,339 made by
the Associated Press on October e.
This was IL per cent under the
actuaI vote.
3. Somewhat higher than the total
1916 vote of 34,630,426 for House
candidates.
Democrats Won Is States.
The Republicans outvoted the
| Democrats in 80 States which have
presidential electoral vote of 1862
The 18 States carried by the Demo-
Gratis have an aggregate electoral
vote of 1863.
This factor alone, however, would
not foretell a Republican victory in
1948. The Republicans outvoted the
Democrats in the combined con-
gressional races in 1912 yet failed
to win control of the House that
year or the presidency two years
later.
This year, however, they gained
control of both houses of Congress
for the first time in IA years.
Another point is that there were
fewer Democratic victories in other
races to Offset the Republican plur-
alities in the combined House con-
tests. Only in Colorado this year
did the Democrats provide such an
offset. There they won the COVER
porship, but the Republicans polled
the greater vote in House races.
The official 1916 vote of 34,630. .42f
for House candidates-best for COM
parsons with other years since all
States do not elect Senators and
Governors-was 6,447922 higher
than in 1912, but 1,572.707 under the
record for House voting in 1898.
The vote this year indicates the
Nation is just about back to peace
time interest at the polls despite
abnormal distribution of the voting
population occasioned by the wal
and postwar military occupation
duties.
However, political parties and Or
ganizations still have long way to
60 to 'get out the vote" The high
est vote on November 5 was only
COL per cent of the number esti-
mated to have qualified. 1t was only
80 per cent of the "potentialp vote
the 81 ,634,472 persons over 81 as OF
last July l. The 80 per cent COM
pares with 81 per cent in the 1914
presidential election and 34.7 in
1912.
The official tabulations show that
all States exceeded their 1912 vote
this year except five-Colorado
Iowa, Mississippi, North and South
Dakota. The South Dakota vote OF
162,8O5 for House candidates was
the lowest in that State in % years.
Republican Vote Listed.
Republicans throughout the coun-
try polled 1892, ,121 votes for House
candidates, compared with Is, ,275, 1873
for Democratic nominees, for a
plurality of 2,986,928. Other party
votes totaled 1,093,112.
The COP corraled 52.7 per cent
of the total, the Democrats AL
and others 80. In 1912, it was
Republicans sos. Democrats 47.3
others "a.
However, the American Labor
PARTY vote in New York was counte,