UK General Election 1951 - Campaigning Begins

[magickwalker]

@UKSazzy67:

In 1950, the Labour government won the General Election, but only just, They only had a minorty lead and wanted to increase this. To that end, in 1951 they called for another General Election. The Labour Party not only expected to win this election (so close after their previous win, who could blame them) but to also increase their lead.

Unfortunately for them, they lost. Churchill and his Conservative party took Government.

[Lab356]

@magickwalker It's rather ironic that Labour received more votes than the Conservatives in 1951, and received the most votes it had ever achieved at a general election, and yet they lost 20 seats. It was a shame that Labour would be out of power for 13 years.

[Myndir]

@Lab356 It was similar to the February 1974 election, where the Conservatives won the most votes but Labour won the most seats.