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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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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 ...