1951 UK Election Map: The Return Of Winston Churchill

The map above shows the results of the 1951 UK General Election. The number of seats won out of 625 by the major parties (and % vote share) were as follows:

Conservatives: 321. Leader and Prime Minister: Winston Churchill.
Labour: 295. Leader: Clement Atlee.
Liberal: 6. Leader: Clement Davies.

Notable things about the 1951 election include:

Labour actually won the popular vote, earning 13,948,385 compared to 13,717,851 for the Conservatives, but the Tories took power because they still won the most seats and a small majority.
Four candidates in Northern Ireland were elected entirely unopposed.
Interestingly, the Conservative manifesto did not pledge to undo the creation of the NHS and other nationalisations that had occurred under the Atlee government – it merely promised that no further industries would be nationalised.
One of the reasons Atlee called the election was to try and get a bigger majority to ensure the government wouldn’t collapse while King George VI went on a tour of the Commonwealth, which was scheduled to take place in 1952. In the event, he didn’t go anyway as he was too ill – and famously died while his daughter Elizabeth, who would become Queen, was in Kenya.

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