GERMAN ELECTIONS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2749, 25 February 1890, Page 2

GERMAN ELECTIONS.

SUCCESS OF SOCIALISTS.' J >SY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.~COPYP.IGHT.) ! Berlin, February 21. The German elections are proceeding. The Ministerialist party do not expect a majority The Socialists and Democrats have nominated 140 candidates. Liebknecht, the singer, has been elected for Berlin. Four second ballots have taken place between the Socialists and Radicals. The Socialist vote in Berlin is 115,000, showing an increase of 20,000 votes since last elections. Socialist candidates have been returned at Munich, Magdeburg, Konigsberg, Elberfeld, Chemnitz, ; Lubeck, Bremen, and Brunswick. The voting power of the Socialist | partisans has been doubled throaghj out Germany. Von Moltke, and Richter have | been defeated at the elections. ! February 22. 11l the elections the Socialists have been successful in the large I towns and factory districts,but have met with little success in the mining j'districts. All the party leaders have been elected. February 23. The result of the elections for the Reichstag so fat- shows 78 Carte's (name given to the Amalgamated National Liberal Anti-Conservative parties), 83 Centre, or Altramontanes, 20 Radicals, 21 Socialists, 14 Poles, 12 Alsatians and seven unattatched to any political party. There will have to be 139 second ballots, and besicls these there are still 24 returns to come in.