Original sentence: After the town was ceded to Poland a large part of German inhabitants left the area but the candidate of the German Party, Ernst Barczewski, was elected to the Sejm with 74,6 % of votes  and again in 1928 as a member of the Polish Senat with 34,6 % of votes.Despite protests of the local German population and the German Government the town together with a few neighboring villages was transferred after World War I by the Treaty of Versailles from Weimar Germany to the Second Polish Republic on January 17, 1920 without plebiscite.In 1921 the Polish census gave the following data regarding ethnic composition of the whole district , Poles: 15496, Germans: 8187, others 44.While the East Prussian plebiscite in the neighboring areas of Masuria resulted 98 % of votes to remain in Germany such a plebiscite was denied for the area as the rail connection through provided needed link between Warsaw and Gdańsk
Edited sentence: After the town was ceded to Poland a large part of German inhabitants left the area.Despite attempts of the local German minority and the German Governmentto prevent Polish inhabited Działdowo region to join Poland, it became part of the rewborn Polish state after World War I by the Treaty of Versailles from Weimar Germany to the Second Polish Republic on January 17, 1920 without plebiscite.Despite the fact that they were no elections in Poland in 1920 a German book makes claim that supposed candidate of the German Party, Ernst Barczewski, was elected to the Sejm with 74,6 % of votes in 1920 despite no elections taking place at the time..  In 1921 the Polish census gave the following data regarding ethnic composition of the whole district , Poles: 15496, Germans: 8187, others 44.plebiscite was denied for the area as the rail connection through provided needed link between Warsaw and Gdańsk