UK General Election results October 1951

25th October 1951

The region in which each constituency is situated is indicated in square brackets

Salford East — Shrewsbury

Skipton — Stafford & Stone

Salford East
[E] Labour hold

EA Hardy	Labour	27,729	56.96%
JE Parkinson	Conservative	20,951	43.04%

Electorate: 61,114; Turnout: 79.65%;
Majority: 6,778 (13.92%)

Salford West
[E] Labour hold

C Royle	Labour	27,542	53.38%
GW Sinclair	Conservative	24,055	46.62%

Electorate: 62,144; Turnout: 83.03%;
Majority: 3,487 (6.76%)

Salisbury
[E] Conservative hold

JG Morrison	Conservative	21,798	57.09%
RR Thomas	Labour	16,386	42.91%

Electorate: 47,585; Turnout: 80.24%;
Majority: 5,412 (14.17%)

Scarborough & Whitby
[E] Conservative hold

ACM Spearman	Conservative	32,988	66.50%
H Brinton	Labour	16,621	33.50%

Electorate: 65,351; Turnout: 75.91%;
Majority: 16,367 (32.99%)

Sedgefield
[E] Labour hold

J Slater	Labour	28,219	62.27%
EH Harrison	Conservative	17,095	37.73%

Electorate: 52,426; Turnout: 86.43%;
Majority: 11,124 (24.55%)

Sevenoaks
[E] Conservative hold

JC Rodgers	Conservative	28,668	60.37%
JN Powrie	Labour	18,823	39.63%

Electorate: 58,299; Turnout: 81.46%;
Majority: 9,845 (20.73%)

Sheffield Attercliffe
[E] Labour hold

JB Hynd	Labour	29,958	71.13%
HL Lambert	Conservative & Lib	12,161	28.87%

Electorate: 50,907; Turnout: 82.74%;
Majority: 17,797 (42.25%)

Sheffield Brightside
[E] Labour hold

RE Winterbottom	Labour	31,519	69.94%
AL Wood	Conservative & Lib	12,433	27.59%
H Hill	Communist	1,116	2.48%

Electorate: 55,364; Turnout: 81.40%;
Majority: 19,086 (42.35%)

Sheffield Hallam
[E] Conservative & Liberal hold

RE Jennings	Conservative & Lib	29,016	70.76%
FW Beaton	Labour	11,988	29.24%

Electorate: 49,989; Turnout: 82.03%;
Majority: 17,028 (41.53%)

Sheffield Heeley
[E] Conservative & Liberal hold

PG Roberts	Conservative & Lib	27,776	61.04%
AH Jennings	Labour	17,729	38.96%

Electorate: 53,807; Turnout: 84.57%;
Majority: 10,047 (22.08%)

Sheffield Hillsborough
[E] Labour hold

G Darling	Labour	28,274	59.04%
G Wadsworth	Conservative & Lib	19,617	40.96%

Electorate: 56,415; Turnout: 84.89%;
Majority: 8,657 (18.08%)

Sheffield Neepsend
[E] Labour hold

F Soskice	Labour	28,880	73.05%
TA Stobbs	Conservative & Lib	10,655	26.95%

Electorate: 49,708; Turnout: 79.53%;
Majority: 18,225 (46.10%)

Sheffield Park
[E] Labour hold

FW Mulley	Labour	30,842	69.18%
SB Rippon	Conservative & Lib	13,743	30.82%

Electorate: 54,058; Turnout: 82.48%;
Majority: 17,099 (38.35%)

Shipley
[E] Conservative hold

GAN Hirst	Conservative	20,396	47.78%
TJ Roberts	Labour	18,893	44.26%
SJ Berwin	Liberal	3,399	7.96%

Electorate: 47,178; Turnout: 90.48%;
Majority: 1,503 (3.52%)

Shoreditch & Finsbury
[E] Labour hold

E Thurtle	Labour	30,162	72.57%
AG Rippon	Conservative	11,399	27.43%

Electorate: 56,780; Turnout: 73.20%;
Majority: 18,763 (45.15%)

Shrewsbury
[E] Conservative hold

JA Langford-Holt	Conservative	21,503	59.34%
RB Cant	Labour	14,735	40.66%

Electorate: 44,891; Turnout: 80.72%;
Majority: 6,768 (18.68%)

Skipton
[E] Conservative hold

GB Drayson	Conservative	26,024	59.03%
E Hewitt	Labour	18,064	40.97%

Electorate: 51,207; Turnout: 86.10%;
Majority: 7,960 (18.05%)

Smethwick
[E] Labour hold

PC Gordon-Walker	Labour	27,739	60.63%
AN Giles	Conservative	18,012	39.37%

Electorate: 54,793; Turnout: 83.50%;
Majority: 9,727 (21.26%)

Solihull
[E] Conservative hold

MA Lindsay	Conservative	27,871	70.35%
J Johnson	Labour	11,747	29.65%

Electorate: 47,627; Turnout: 83.18%;
Majority: 16,124 (40.70%)

Somerset North
[E] Conservative hold

EHC Leather	Conservative	27,465	52.43%
RJ Hurst	Labour	24,917	47.57%

Electorate: 59,167; Turnout: 88.53%;
Majority: 2,548 (4.86%)

Southall
[E] Labour hold

GA Pargiter	Labour	29,123	57.91%
HJ Berkeley	Conservative	21,169	42.09%

Electorate: 59,885; Turnout: 83.98%;
Majority: 7,954 (15.82%)

Southampton Itchen
[E] Labour hold

R Morley	Labour	30,330	54.12%
RJ Stranger	Conservative & Lib	25,708	45.88%

Electorate: 67,038; Turnout: 83.59%;
Majority: 4,622 (8.25%)

Southampton Test
[E] Labour hold

HM King	Labour	26,430	50.44%
JA Paul	Conservative & Lib	25,965	49.56%

Electorate: 62,734; Turnout: 83.52%;
Majority: 465 (0.89%)

Southend East
[E] Conservative hold

SJ McAdden	Conservative	24,088	55.29%
LC Merrion	Labour	19,478	44.71%

Electorate: 54,020; Turnout: 80.65%;
Majority: 4,610 (10.58%)

Southend West
[E] Conservative hold

H Channon	Conservative	39,287	69.14%
HN Lyall	Labour	17,532	30.86%

Electorate: 71,957; Turnout: 78.96%;
Majority: 21,755 (38.29%)

Southgate
[E] Conservative hold

AB Baxter	Conservative	30,044	62.16%
V Dart	Labour	10,889	22.53%
E Malindine	Liberal	7,402	15.31%

Electorate: 57,462; Turnout: 84.12%;
Majority: 19,155 (39.63%)

Southport
[E] Conservative hold

RS Hudson	Conservative	30,388	60.18%
HO Ellis	Labour	12,535	24.82%
HD Bentliff	Liberal	7,576	15.00%

Electorate: 65,018; Turnout: 77.67%;
Majority: 17,853 (35.35%)

South Shields
[E] Labour hold

JC Ede	Labour	33,633	55.95%
J Chalmers	Conservative	20,208	33.62%
CJ Kitchell	Liberal	6,270	10.43%

Electorate: 74,657; Turnout: 80.52%;
Majority: 13,425 (22.33%)

Southwark
[E] Labour hold

GA Isaacs	Labour	36,586	72.28%
JM Greenwood	Conservative	14,032	27.72%

Electorate: 69,992; Turnout: 72.32%;
Majority: 22,554 (44.56%)

Sowerby
[E] Labour hold

ALND Houghton	Labour	22,766	46.03%
P Bryan	Conservative	21,118	42.70%
JG Walker	Liberal	5,573	11.27%

Electorate: 56,921; Turnout: 86.89%;
Majority: 1,648 (3.33%)

Spelthorne
[E] Conservative hold

GB Craddock	Conservative	31,031	50.92%
AE Hunter	Labour	29,908	49.08%

Electorate: 72,599; Turnout: 83.94%;
Majority: 1,123 (1.84%)

Stafford & Stone
[E] Conservative hold

HCPJ Fraser	Conservative	25,795	56.64%
GP Grant	Labour	19,749	43.36%

Electorate: 54,123; Turnout: 84.15%;
Majority: 6,046 (13.28%)

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