sentences:  In the first round of the election he received the largest number of votes with over ten million and his plurality was at nearly 39%.The next major candidates were Otto Braun of the Social Democrats with nearly eight million votes (29%) and Wilhelm Marx of the Catholic Center Party with nearly four million votes (14.5%).Jarres withdrew his candidacy in the second round of voting in favor of Paul von Hindenburg who would go on to win the closely fought second round of elections against Marx and Ernst Thälmann, the candidate of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).