The neo-Nazi Reichspartei quadrupled its seats in municipal district parliaments in the Rhineland-Pfalz province in the election Sunday, according to figures released today.
The party, which campaigned on an openly anti-Semitic platform in the final weeks of the election, won 16 seats as compared with the four it won in the 1956 election. The party garnered 19,474 votes Sunday or 1.1 percent of the total votes, compared with 5,484 votes or 3 percent in 1956.
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