Unofficial results of yesterday’s elections to the Polish Sejm indicate that in the Jewish quarter the mandate went to a Christian, Francisze Urbanski. A second mandate may go either to Dr. Joshua Gottlieb, candidate of Group “B” General Zionists, or the Merchants’ Association, and known to be a disciplined member of the government party.
This result is due to the small participation of Jews in the election. Only 16 per cent of the Jews entitled to vote exercised their franchise, while 65 per cent of the Christians voted.
Yesterday’s elections were boycotted by the Jewish Socialist parties and by the official Zionist Organization. The Agudath Israel extreme orthodox group, the Jewish merchants’ association, artisans’ union, and veteran’s association, however, participated in the elections, and each had its own candidate.
In Wilno Rabbi Rubinstein was elected. In Lodz, the Agudah candidate Mincberg, and in Lwow Deputy Sommerstein were victorious, but in Krakow Leopold Spira the Jewish candidate failed to receive the necessary number of votes.
According to the new election regulations the final results of yesterday’s elections cannot be known before Wednesday.
Voting yesterday was extremely light and peaceful, save for a feincidents in Warsaw where groups boycotting the elections turned over a few campaign autos injuring about a score of persons.
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