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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.
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.
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In the run-up to the United Kingdom general elections, various organisations carry out opinion polling to gauge voting intention. Results of such polls are displayed in this article. The date range for these opinion polls are from the general election until the general election. UK opinion polling for the election
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 ...
This is a list of parliamentary by-elections in the United Kingdom, with the names of the incumbent and victor and their respective parties.Where seats changed political party at the election, the result is highlighted: red for a Labour gain, blue for a Conservative gain, orange for a Liberal gain, yellow for an SNP gain, green for a Plaid Cymru gain and grey for any other gain.