South East: 1950 general election results

How South East voted at the 1950 general election: the Conservatives won 52 of 63 seats with 51.6% of the vote. Every constituency result.

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Con52
Lab11

South East: results by party
Party	Seats	Change	Votes	Share	Change	Candidates
Conservative	52	+15	1,558,074	51.6%	+3.1	61
Labour	11	−3	1,107,062	36.7%	−1.8	63
Liberal	0	0	300,383	10.0%	+0.5	55
National Liberal	0	0	48,199	1.6%	+1.1	2
3 other parties and independents			5,380	0.2%

Change compared with the 1945 general election in South East.

Constituencies

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Constituency	Winner	Majority	%	Turnout
Berkshire Abingdon	Con	3,862	8.7	82.1%
Berkshire Newbury	Con	6,236	18.2	81.1%
Berkshire Windsor	Con	9,212	21.8	82.0%
Berkshire Wokingham	Con	10,316	28.9	81.0%
Bournemouth East and Christchurch	Con	14,887	31.6	85.0%
Bournemouth West	Con	13,072	24.6	83.9%
Brighton Kemptown	Con	3,001	6.5	78.0%
Brighton Pavilion	Con	14,653	33.5	78.9%
Buckinghamshire Aylesbury	Con	3,361	8.5	83.4%
Buckinghamshire Buckingham	Lab	1,654	3.8	86.2%
Buckinghamshire South	Con	15,476	33.8	85.7%
Buckinghamshire Wycombe	Lab	476	0.9	85.8%
Dartford	Lab	13,638	20.2	85.5%
Eton and Slough	Lab	4,393	10.7	85.7%
Gillingham	Con	2,080	5.3	84.9%
Gosport and Fareham	Con	10,584	20.7	82.9%
Hampshire Aldershot	Con	6,172	15.2	79.7%
Hampshire Basingstoke	Con	4,894	10.8	79.5%
Hampshire New Forest	Con	12,441	24.5	81.6%
Hampshire Petersfield	Con	11,729	23.7	78.0%
Hampshire Winchester	Con	7,507	13.6	84.0%
Hastings	Con	12,432	21.9	82.1%
Hove	Con	21,957	43.5	81.9%
Isle of Wight	Con	11,488	21.1	80.6%
Kent Ashford	Con	6,147	15.0	84.1%
Kent Canterbury	Con	11,928	25.2	82.5%
Kent Dover	Con	2,309	4.4	85.8%
Kent Faversham	Lab	2,239	4.6	86.3%
Kent Folkestone and Hythe	Con	9,882	24.2	83.2%
Kent Gravesend	Lab	5,571	10.5	86.3%
Kent Isle of Thanet	Con	10,823	19.2	83.0%
Kent Maidstone	Con	6,631	13.6	81.8%
Kent Sevenoaks	Con	7,682	15.7	84.9%
Kent Tonbridge	Con	8,368	15.6	83.5%
Middlesex Spelthorne	Con	31	0.1	81.8%
Oxford	Con	3,606	6.1	84.9%
Oxfordshire Banbury	Con	1,957	4.0	83.6%
Oxfordshire Henley	Con	5,779	13.9	81.7%
Portsmouth Langstone	Con	11,786	23.6	83.7%
Portsmouth South	Con	13,579	27.9	83.5%
Portsmouth West	Con	945	1.9	83.5%
Reading North	Lab	527	1.6	86.8%
Reading South	Lab	2,254	6.2	88.1%
Rochester and Chatham	Lab	477	1.0	84.2%
Southampton Itchen	Lab	5,213	9.4	84.0%
Southampton Test	Lab	1,389	2.7	84.4%
Surrey Chertsey	Con	5,236	14.0	82.7%
Surrey Dorking	Con	10,982	29.4	83.4%
Surrey East	Con	20,212	37.6	87.2%
Surrey Epsom	Con	17,847	32.7	86.2%
Surrey Esher	Con	17,580	32.4	85.6%
Surrey Farnham	Con	8,693	22.4	83.0%
Surrey Guildford	Con	9,540	21.2	84.1%
Surrey Reigate	Con	9,096	21.2	85.1%
Surrey Woking	Con	11,297	26.8	83.2%
Sussex (East) East Grinstead	Con	16,803	31.1	81.7%
Sussex (East) Eastbourne	Con	17,121	28.8	85.1%
Sussex (East) Lewes	Con	15,407	29.6	81.0%
Sussex (West) Arundel and Shoreham	Con	15,554	29.4	82.9%
Sussex (West) Chichester	Con	16,492	35.4	80.5%
Sussex (West) Horsham	Con	10,423	27.2	80.0%
Woodford	Con	18,499	29.6	86.1%
Worthing	Con	19,447	44.1	84.0%

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Questions and answers

Who won in South East at the 1950 general election?

The Conservatives won 52 of the 63 seats in South East, with 51.6% of the vote.

How many seats were there in South East in 1950?

63 constituencies.

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