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The 1951 election was the second one to be covered on BBC Television. On election night, the results were televised from the BBC Alexandra Palace studio in London. Graham Hutton , David Butler and H. G. Nicholas headed the election night coverage from 10.15pm to 4.00am on the television service.
In that election, the Labour Party had won less seats than the Conservative Party in the region of England despite winning a greater share of the vote. The election produced an interesting anomaly in England as well as the nation at large - despite the Labour Party winning a greater share of the vote, the Conservative Party won an overall ...
26 October – The Conservative Party led by Winston Churchill wins the General Election, regaining (a month before his seventy-seventh birthday) the position of Prime Minister that he lost six years previously, with a majority of seventeen seats, [25] though with slightly fewer votes than the Labour Party which wins the most votes of any party ...
United Kingdom general elections (elections for the House of Commons) have occurred in the United Kingdom since the first in 1802.The members of the 1801–1802 Parliament had been elected to the former Parliament of Great Britain and Parliament of Ireland, before being co-opted to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, so that Parliament is not included in the table below.
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.
1951 United Kingdom general election; H. 1951 Harrow West by-election; L. 1951 Labour Party Shadow Cabinet election; 1951 Londonderry by-election; O. 1951 Ormskirk by ...
The 1950 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 23 February 1950. It was the first election to be held after the abolition of plural voting and university constituencies in addition to a reorganization of constituencies by the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949 .
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.