Centre 32,964 men 49,154 women Social Democrats 36,295 “ 24,134 “ People’s Party 17,768 “ 15,944 “ Independents 18,245 “ 8,973 “ Democrats 6,554 “ 4,677 “ German Nationals 3,190 “ 3,422 “ In Spandau 23,294 men voted and 23,359 women. Out of every 100 men and 100 women the different parties receive the following proportion: Independents 35.4 men 32.6 women Social Democrats 21.3 “ 19.3 “ German Nationals 12.8 “ 16.7 “ People’s Party 12.5 “ 14.5 “ Democrats 8.3 “ 7.5 “ Communists 6.3 “ 4.2 “ Centre 3.2 “ 5.0 “ Other parties .2 “ .2 “ Thus in the two districts women voted more for the Centre and the parties of the Right. Of the total vote cast for the Independent Socialist Party 33 per cent were women. In the Social Democratic party the proportion rose to 40 per cent. For the parties of the Right the percentage was 52. Whereas of the Centre women comprised 60 per cent. The newspapers of the Left noted bitterly this irony of history, that it is precisely the parties that have always been against woman suffrage that are most strongly supported by women. II.--The application of the automatic system has had several interesting results. Throughout Germany there were cast 26,017,590 votes. This gave the Reichstag 466 members. The votes and the seats were distributed as follows: _Parties_ _Votes_ _Seats_ Social Democrats 5,614,456 112 Centre 3,540,830 68 Democrats 2,202,394 45 German Nationals 3,736,778 66 People’s Party 3,606,316 62 Independents 4,895,317 81 Communists 441,995 2 Bavarian Peasants’ Union 218,884 4 Guelphs 319,100 5 Christian Federalists 1,171,722 21 One may wonder that the Communists with 441,995 votes received only two seats. This is explained by the fact, although they had put up tickets in all the districts they did not receive more than 60,000 votes, that is one seat, in any district other than Chemnitz. The votes that had been cast for them in the other districts and the excess of 60,000 received in Chemnitz were transferred to their ticket for the Reich. But there they could not receive more than one seat according to the provision that no ticket for the Reich may receive more seats than the number which the party in question has won in the districts directly.