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The 1951 United Kingdom general election was held twenty months after the 1950 general election, which the Labour Party had won with a slim majority of just five seats. The Labour government called a snap election for Thursday 25 October 1951 in the hope of increasing its parliamentary majority.
The 1951 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 25 October 1951 to elect 625 members of the House of Commons, of which 506 constituencies were in England.
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These representative diagrams show the composition of the parties in the 1951 general election. Note: This is not the official seating plan of the House of Commons, which has five rows of benches on each side, with the government party to the right of the speaker and opposition parties to the left, but with room for only around two-thirds of MPs to sit at any one time.
A general election was held in the United Kingdom on Thursday 25 October 1951, and all 71 seats in Scotland were contested. [1] The Unionists, together with their allies the National Liberals, ended up narrowly ahead of Labour in terms of vote share, however the two were equal in terms of seats won, each taking 35 seats.
The 1951 United Kingdom general election was held on 25 October 1951. Pages in category "1951 United Kingdom general election" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
General elections were held in Gold Coast on 8 February 1951. Although elections had been held for the Legislative Council since 1925, [1] the Council did not have complete control over the legislation, and the voting franchise was limited to residents of urban areas meeting property requirements and the councils of chiefs.
Elections to the Labour Party's Shadow Cabinet (more formally, its "Parliamentary Committee") occurred in November 1951. In addition to the 12 members elected, the Leader (Clement Attlee), Deputy Leader (Herbert Morrison), Labour Chief Whip (William Whiteley), and Labour Leader in the House of Lords (Christopher Addison) were automatically members.