1951 Jonathian general election

The 1951 Jonathian presidential election was the 11th biennial election. It was held on Tuesday, January 9, 1951. In one of the greatest election upsets in Jonathian history, Bob Hunter, the Liberal nominee, defeated incumbent National prime minister Laura Kirkbride. This is the first election in which the Liberal candidate was elected as prime minister, and the last election prior to the ill-fated September 1 bombings the following year.
Hunter campaigned well with left-wing voters, consisting of most of black citizens, as well as members of workers' unions and many voters who had grown weary of the Republican Party, which had begun shifting from their standard centrist position. As well as this, Hunter also fared surprisingly well with farmers. Meanwhile, Kirkbride ran a low-risk campaign and largely avoided directly criticizing Hunter. With a split in the Liberals that created the Social Democrats the previous year, coupled with Hunter's low popularity within the Liberal Party, Hunter was widely considered to be the underdog in the race, and virtually every prediction (with or without public opinion polls) indicated that Hunter would be defeated by Kirkbride.
Defying these predictions, Hunter won the election with 66 seats in parliament to Kirkbride's 18. Hunter also won 49.6% of the popular vote compared to Kirkbride's 45.1%, while the third party candidacies of Lily Scarlett (Republican), Adolf Hitler (Nazi), and Oscar White (JFP) each won 10, 14, and 8 seats respectively, with Scarlett carrying both Arizaia and Lynskip. With simultaneous success in several provincial parliaments, the Liberals seized control of the parliament, an achievement only reached prior by Joe Marshall and the JFP in 1931. Thus, Hunter's election confirmed the Liberal Party's status as Jonathia's primary left-wing party.
== Results ==
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The election results are shown below. A total of 37,712,948 eligible voters voted in this election.
Party	Party 	Leader 	Votes 	Percent	Seats 	Seats	Seats	Seats
Party	Party 	Leader 	Votes 	Percent	Parliament	Diff 	Local	Diff
 	Liberal Party 	Bob Hunter 	12,653,009	33.6 	66 	+32 	 	
 	National Party 	Laura Kirkbride 	7,803,515 	20.7 	18 	-19 	 	
 	Nazi Party 	Adolf Hitler 	5,578,140 	14.8 	14 	-2 	 	
 	Republican Party 	Lily Scarlett 	5,341,250 	14.2 	10 	+3 	 	
 	Jonathia First Party	Oscar White 	4,963,179 	13.2 	8 	-6 	 	
 	Unity Party 	Victoria Euston 	1,220,589 	3.2 	3 	+1 	 	
 	Communist Party 	Vladmir Illigagh	66,267 	0.2 	1 	New 	 	
 	Social Democrats 	Charlie Moonrose	13,578 	0.03 	0 	New 	 	
Other	Other 	Other 	73,421 	0.07 	0 	-10 	 	
== See also ==
Category:1951
Category:Elections
Category:Jonathian elections
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