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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.
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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 Thursday 25 October 1951 to elect 625 members of the House of Commons, of which 506 constituencies were in England.
United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1951, in three states. Kentucky , Louisiana and Mississippi hold their gubernatorial elections in odd numbered years , every 4 years, preceding the United States presidential election year.
The 1951 election was the final blow to Philadelphia's once-dominant Republican machine. After winning some minor offices in 1953, the Republican organization quickly declined again. [ 46 ] Since that time, the Democratic Party has dominated the city's politics, with no other party electing a mayor or a majority of the city council. [ 47 ]
The Chicago mayoral election of 1951 was held on April 3, 1951. The election saw Democrat Martin H. Kennelly being reelected for a second term, defeating Republican Robert L. Hunter by a double-digit margin.
The 1951 general election was caused by a number of crises within the first inter-party government, most notably the Mother and Child Scheme. While the affair – which saw the resignation of the Minister for Health , Noël Browne – was not entirely to blame for the collapse of the government, it added to the disagreement between the various ...