Talk:1951 United Kingdom general election

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message: By my calculation, there's a discrepancy of 349 votes behind the total of all votes listed in the table, and the total given beneath the table as votes cast. I presume a small party is missing?--86.178.142.209 (talk) 18:49, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  349 

message: "A factor that almost certainly boosted the margin of Labour's victory in the popular vote, was the unopposed return of four Conservative Party candidates." Either I am missing something, or this makes no sense at all. Cripipper (talk) 15:32, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unopposed Conservatives 

message: I have raised a citation need against the interesting statement that Attlee called this election in response to concern raised by the King about going on the 1952 tour with an unstable government at home.  This is not mentioned in the Wikipedia articles on Attlee (which describes concerns he had over the size of his own party's Commons majority) nor that on George VI, which mentions he had his lung removal operation before the election day. The King's serious health issues were given restricted public coverage.Cloptonson (talk) 16:24, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I have located Denis Judd's biography of George VI (first published 1982 by Michael Joseph, republished 2012 by IB Tauris), page 238, and added this as citation. Judd wrote Attlee confirmed the king's anxiety in his autobiography later.Cloptonson (talk) 14:35, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Election date and upcoming royal tour

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thread_title:  Clement Davis image in infobox 

message: The table of results does not include any Ulster Unionists, but List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1951 includes 12 of them. Where have they gone? DuncanHill (talk) 08:14, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, I see below the table the self-contradictory statement "All parties shown. Conservative result includes the Ulster Unionists." So not all parties are shewn. DuncanHill (talk) 08:23, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The UUP are shown separate in the 1950 election article but not thereafter until much later. I don't know if merging them for 1951 is correct or if they should not be separated in 1950. The National Liberals are merged in for 1955 which seems to have no logic for me. Graemp (talk) 08:34, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where are the Ulster Unionists 

message: There are inconsistencies in this article. Were the Liberal Nationals (pale blue) part of the majority government? If so, either the results table should indicate this or the 'composition' diagram shouldn't differentiate them? Crookesmoor (talk) 15:21, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:   Liberal Nationals 

message: Surely it's of no more than marginal interest in an article with this subject these days, and you might consider a decicated article on UK TV Election coverage, but if you want to keep the reference here, you might at least remind us that even in October 1951, the broadcast didn't reach anything like the whole of the UK.  For example Holme Moss transmitter opened a mere fortnight before the 1951 polling day, and even then the southern edges of its signal area were getting such TV as they could from Sutton Coldfield.  like most of us in Cheshire, I followed the results on radio.   Very few folk even a train ride from the metropolis had TV then.90.192.193.27 (talk) 08:46, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:   TV coverage 

message: I was long under the impression, shared by relatives old enough to remember that period, that the Korean War contributed to Labour losing the 1951 election, as it broke out after the 1950 election and caused added strains that repercussed on support, such as extended National Service terms for servicemen and the introduction of added taxes and prescription charges to help added defence spending. Also it broke the spell of the Labour slogan 'Vote Conservative and pick up a rifle, vote Labour and reach old age'* that got used to taunt Churchill (often considered a warmonger) when discomfitingly a Labour government found itself needing to field men under arms in Korea as well as ongoing trouble spots like Egypt and Malaya. Was it a major factor?
*Mentioned in "The True Book of Winston Churchill", published in the early 1950s after he had become honoured during his second premiership (part of the "True Book" series published by British firm (forgot who). Cloptonson (talk) 18:00, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wasn't Korean War a factor?