The Archive · 1928

A Swing to the Left

May 21. 3 am, 'The' results from various parts of the country of the elections to the Reichstag bear out the antici-potions of a swing to the Left The general tendency is the im-Provement of the position of the Socialists at the expense of the Nationalists.

The following seats are so far known to have been obtained: by the parties of the Left, comprising the Social Democrats, 70, the Communists, 23, and the Democrats, 12; cly the Centre group, 205 by the parties of the Right, comprising the Nationalists, 26, the Fase'sts, 6, the Gernfan Pedple's Party, 23,'the Bavarian Pdople's Party, 2, the Economic Party, 9, and other parties, 6.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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