1951 United Kingdom general election

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The 1951 United Kingdom general election was held soon after the 1950 general election, which the Labour Party won, but with a very slim majority. They called an election on October 25, 1951, hoping to win more seats, but instead lost to the Conservative Party, who were able to form a government, with a workable majority (when the National Liberals were included) of 17, despite gaining fewer votes than Labour (even when the National Liberal vote total was included) and despite Labour polling more votes than in the last election. This was the only universal-suffrage election where the popular vote-loser gained a majority, although Labour gained a plurality of seats against the pattern of votes in 1929 and in the first election of 1974.

Results

UK General Election 1951
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Votes %	Votes
Labour	295	3	23	- 20	48.8	13,948,883
Conservative	302	20	0	+ 20	44.3	12,660,061
National Liberal Party (UK)	19	3	0	+ 3	3.7	1,058,138
Liberal	6	1	4	- 3	2.5	730,546
Independent Nationalist	2	0	0	0	0.3	92,787
Irish Labour	1	1	0	0	0.1	33,174
Communist	0	0	0	0	0.1	21,640
Independent	0	0	0	0	0.1	19,791
Plaid Cymru	0	0	0	0	0.0	10,920
SNP	0	0	0	0	0.0	7,299
Independent Conservative	0	0	0	0	0.0	5,904
Ind. Labour Party	0	0	0	0	0.0	4,057
British Empire	0	0	0	0	0.0	1,643
Anti-Partition	0	0	0	0	0.0	1,340
Independent Socialist	0	0	0	0	0.0	411

Total votes cast: 28,596,594. All parties shown. Conservative result includes the Ulster Unionists.

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