England: 1951 general election results

How England voted at the 1951 general election: the Conservatives won 255 of 506 seats with 45.2% of the vote. Every constituency result.

254 for a majority

Con255
Lab235
Nat Lib12
Lib2
Ind Con2

England: results by party
Party	Seats	Change	Votes	Share	Change	Candidates
Conservative	255	+12	10,769,263	45.2%	+4.2	461
Labour	235	−16	11,653,164	48.9%	+2.8	506
National Liberal	12	+2	766,717	3.2%	+0.4	39
Liberal	2	0	537,434	2.3%	−7.1	91
Independent Conservative	2	+2	68,851	0.3%	+0.2	3
3 other parties and independents			29,586	0.1%

Change compared with the 1950 general election in England.

Constituencies

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Constituency	Winner	Majority	%	Turnout	Result
Accrington	Lab	2,191	4.6	90.0%	Lab hold
Acton	Lab	1,991	4.5	86.9%	Lab hold
Altrincham and Sale	Con	16,522	32.1	84.0%	Con hold
Ashton under Lyne	Lab	1,684	4.1	86.6%	Lab hold
Barking	Lab	19,146	42.4	81.9%	Lab hold
Barnsley	Lab	28,227	52.5	77.2%	Lab hold
Barrow in Furness	Lab	6,484	13.8	86.2%	Lab hold
Bath	Con	5,296	10.5	85.6%	Con hold
Batley and Morley	Lab	9,515	19.4	85.5%	Lab hold
Battersea North	Lab	16,077	45.1	80.3%	Lab hold
Battersea South	Con	494	1.4	85.6%	Con gain from Lab
Bebington	Con	8,421	14.7	85.8%	Con hold
Beckenham	Con	21,300	34.8	82.4%	Con hold
Bedfordshire Bedford	Con	2,786	5.9	87.1%	Con hold
Bedfordshire Mid	Con	1,863	4.3	85.3%	Con hold
Bedfordshire South	Nat Lib	849	1.9	86.1%	Nat Lib gain from Lab
Berkshire Abingdon	Con	4,883	10.9	80.0%	Con hold
Berkshire Newbury	Con	6,595	19.6	78.7%	Con hold
Berkshire Windsor	Con	9,635	23.2	79.0%	Con hold
Berkshire Wokingham	Con	11,046	31.1	78.5%	Con hold
Bermondsey	Lab	21,002	63.1	78.2%	Lab hold
Bethnal Green	Lab	15,595	49.1	76.0%	Lab hold
Bexley	Con	1,639	2.9	87.8%	Con hold
Bilston	Lab	12,029	23.7	82.7%	Lab hold
Birkenhead	Lab	5,249	10.0	82.8%	Lab hold
Birmingham Aston	Lab	11,763	26.4	71.5%	Lab hold
Birmingham Edgbaston	Con	13,104	28.6	76.1%	Con hold
Birmingham Erdington	Lab	3,408	6.1	83.4%	Lab hold
Birmingham Hall Green	Con	6,415	13.3	82.9%	Con hold
Birmingham Hansworth	Con	8,707	19.1	79.0%	Con hold
Birmingham King'S Norton	Con	8,131	15.4	81.6%	Con hold
Birmingham Ladywood	Lab	7,677	19.0	77.2%	Lab hold
Birmingham Northfield	Lab	2,850	5.7	83.3%	Lab hold
Birmingham Perry Barr	Lab	6,467	16.1	81.1%	Lab hold
Birmingham Small Heath	Lab	15,923	32.5	77.2%	Lab hold
Birmingham Sparbrook	Lab	8,936	22.7	76.4%	Lab hold
Birmingham Strechford	Lab	10,971	19.0	81.4%	Lab hold
Birmingham Yardley	Lab	2,701	6.3	82.5%	Lab hold
Blackburn East	Lab	2,632	7.2	88.8%	Lab hold
Blackburn West	Con	2,701	7.4	88.9%	Con hold
Blackpool North	Con	17,229	40.4	73.2%	Con hold
Blackpool South	Con	14,421	34.4	75.0%	Con hold
Blyth	Lab	25,639	47.5	86.3%	Lab hold
Bolton East	Con	355	0.7	84.8%	Con gain from Lab
Bolton West	Lib	2,748	5.5	84.8%	Lib gain from Lab
Bootle	Lab	4,062	8.1	81.2%	Lab hold
Bournemouth East and Christchurch	Con	17,588	38.2	80.8%	Con hold
Bournemouth West	Con	15,737	31.0	77.7%	Con hold
Bradford Central	Lab	8,872	21.4	83.7%	Lab hold
Bradford East	Lab	11,797	25.8	84.3%	Lab hold
Bradford North	Nat Lib	3,877	8.6	87.1%	Nat Lib hold
Bradford South	Lab	3,501	7.7	86.2%	Lab hold
Brentford and Chiswick	Con	1,510	4.0	86.2%	Con hold
Brighouse and Spenborough	Lab	2,277	4.6	88.7%	Lab hold
Brighton Kemptown	Con	5,197	11.1	77.1%	Con hold
Brighton Pavilion	Con	15,757	37.0	75.5%	Con hold
Bristol Central	Lab	10,366	24.8	83.1%	Lab hold
Bristol North East	Lab	2,500	6.1	82.8%	Lab hold
Bristol North West	Con	3,841	7.3	86.1%	Con hold
Bristol South	Lab	10,283	26.6	84.5%	Lab hold
Bristol South East	Lab	14,256	30.1	83.8%	Lab hold
Bristol West	Con	14,142	34.8	80.5%	Con hold
Bromley	Con	12,125	30.9	81.0%	Con hold
Buckinghamshire Aylesbury	Con	4,850	12.1	83.1%	Con hold
Buckinghamshire Buckingham	Con	54	0.1	86.6%	Con gain from Lab
Buckinghamshire South	Con	16,806	37.2	80.1%	Con hold
Buckinghamshire Wycombe	Con	1,753	3.3	86.2%	Con gain from Lab
Burnley	Lab	7,227	13.1	88.7%	Lab hold
Bury and Radcliffe	Con	1,891	3.3	86.5%	Con hold
Camberwell Dulwich	Con	691	1.2	83.8%	Con gain from Lab
Camberwell Peckham	Lab	19,146	39.7	75.6%	Lab hold
Cambridge	Con	5,677	11.2	84.4%	Con hold
Cambridgeshire	Con	3,537	7.6	81.2%	Con hold
Carlisle	Lab	3,192	7.6	87.4%	Lab hold
Chelsea	Con	14,250	39.8	69.6%	Con hold
Cheltenham	Con	5,897	14.2	83.2%	Con hold
Cheshire Cheadle	Con	19,459	37.7	85.7%	Con hold
Cheshire City of Chester	Con	7,785	17.0	82.6%	Con hold
Cheshire Crewe	Lab	2,443	4.5	86.5%	Lab hold
Cheshire Knutsford	Con	19,474	39.9	83.0%	Con hold
Cheshire Macclesfield	Con	9,006	18.1	87.3%	Con hold
Cheshire Northwich	Con	7,075	13.7	83.7%	Con hold
Cheshire Runcorn	Con	9,841	24.7	85.2%	Con hold
Cheshire Stalybridge and Hyde	Lab	298	0.6	87.4%	Lab hold
Cheshire Wirral	Con	15,239	30.5	81.7%	Con hold
Chesterfield	Lab	14,977	27.5	84.2%	Lab hold
Cities of London and Westminster	Con	17,738	33.6	67.2%	Con hold
Cornwall Bodmin	Con	9,998	25.4	84.6%	Con hold
Cornwall Falmouth and Camborne	Lab	1,003	2.2	83.6%	Lab hold
Cornwall North	Con	5,140	13.9	85.7%	Con hold
Cornwall St Ives	Nat Lib	7,612	21.6	78.7%	Nat Lib hold
Cornwall Truro	Con	5,131	11.5	81.3%	Con hold
Coventry East	Lab	12,671	24.6	85.7%	Lab hold
Coventry North	Lab	9,588	19.2	86.4%	Lab hold
Coventry South	Lab	5,468	10.3	86.2%	Lab hold
Crosby	Con	14,783	41.9	79.8%	Con hold
Croydon East	Con	9,667	17.6	84.2%	Con hold
Croydon North	Con	10,246	19.0	83.7%	Con hold
Croydon West	Con	1,950	4.3	82.6%	Con hold
Cumberland Penrith and the Border	Con	12,515	29.1	83.5%	Con hold
Cumberland Whitehaven	Lab	7,200	18.4	85.2%	Lab hold
Cumberland Workington	Lab	8,644	20.0	87.5%	Lab hold
Dagenham	Lab	30,796	52.2	77.7%	Lab hold
Darlington	Con	813	1.5	87.1%	Con gain from Lab
Dartford	Lab	12,334	18.2	85.2%	Lab hold
Debry South	Lab	10,989	25.2	84.5%	Lab hold
Deptford	Lab	13,447	30.4	80.3%	Lab hold
Derby North	Lab	5,562	14.2	82.5%	Lab hold
Derbyshire Belper	Lab	8,197	14.2	86.8%	Lab hold
Derbyshire Bolsolver	Lab	25,189	59.8	85.4%	Lab hold
Derbyshire High Peak	Con	3,178	7.3	85.9%	Con hold
Derbyshire Ilkeston	Lab	30,398	50.4	86.6%	Lab hold
Derbyshire North East	Lab	16,721	33.4	84.4%	Lab hold
Derbyshire South East	Lab	3,357	5.4	86.4%	Lab hold
Derbyshire West	Con	6,645	17.6	84.4%	Con hold
Devon Honiton	Con	17,157	37.1	82.5%	Con hold
Devon North	Con	9,148	24.2	83.9%	Con hold
Devon Tavistock	Con	9,850	27.7	78.8%	Con hold
Devon Tiverton	Con	10,448	27.1	81.3%	Con hold
Devon Torrington	Nat Lib	11,350	32.5	76.4%	Nat Lib hold
Devon Totnes	Con	11,596	22.2	82.8%	Con hold
Dewsbury	Lab	9,088	16.9	85.8%	Lab hold
Doncaster	Con	384	0.8	86.2%	Con gain from Lab
Dorset North	Con	747	2.0	86.4%	Con hold
Dorset South	Con	3,435	7.7	84.0%	Con hold
Dorset West	Con	7,431	20.6	82.1%	Con hold
Droylsden	Lab	1,870	3.6	87.7%	Lab hold
Dudley	Lab	9,851	16.7	83.7%	Lab hold
Durham Bishop Auckland	Lab	8,986	21.0	85.1%	Lab hold
Durham Blaydon	Lab	15,114	36.4	87.6%	Lab hold
Durham Chester Le Street	Lab	24,879	53.9	86.6%	Lab hold
Durham Consett	Lab	19,844	38.5	85.1%	Lab hold
Durham Durham	Lab	18,150	34.2	86.1%	Lab hold
Durham Easington	Lab	28,874	61.5	86.7%	Lab hold
Durham Houghton Le Spring	Lab	25,676	51.6	86.6%	Lab hold
Durham Jarrow	Lab	16,746	30.4	84.6%	Lab hold
Durham North West	Lab	16,532	37.3	85.1%	Lab hold
Durham Sedgefield	Lab	11,124	24.6	86.4%	Lab hold
Ealing North	Lab	120	0.2	87.8%	Lab hold
Ealing South	Con	12,057	24.9	82.2%	Con hold
East Ham North	Lab	7,359	20.7	83.3%	Lab hold
East Ham South	Lab	10,891	29.8	82.5%	Lab hold
Eccles	Lab	2,611	4.9	86.8%	Lab hold
Edmonton	Lab	10,392	16.9	81.5%	Lab hold
Enfield East	Lab	10,704	26.8	82.6%	Lab hold
Enfield West	Con	10,225	29.7	82.5%	Con hold
Essex Billericay	Con	6,323	13.3	77.1%	Con hold
Essex Chelmsford	Con	5,294	10.0	83.3%	Con hold
Essex Colchester	Con	3,846	8.3	84.8%	Con hold
Essex Epping	Con	4,794	9.6	85.1%	Con hold
Essex Harwich	Nat Lib	7,925	17.8	78.8%	Nat Lib hold
Essex Maldon	Lab	704	1.6	87.4%	Lab hold
Essex Saffron Walden	Con	5,139	12.9	83.1%	Con hold
Essex Thurrock	Lab	13,685	31.1	82.8%	Lab hold
Eton and Slough	Lab	4,084	9.9	84.3%	Lab hold
Exeter	Con	4,642	10.2	84.1%	Con hold
Finchley	Con	12,788	21.1	84.0%	Con hold
Fulham East	Lab	2,473	6.5	84.5%	Lab hold
Fulham West	Lab	2,583	6.6	86.6%	Lab hold
Gateshead East	Lab	5,181	15.3	85.7%	Lab hold
Gateshead West	Lab	8,979	27.5	83.8%	Lab hold
Gillingham	Con	2,964	7.4	85.5%	Con hold
Gloucester	Lab	2,261	5.2	85.5%	Lab hold
Gloucestershire Cirencester and Tewkesbury	Con	8,625	19.0	78.0%	Con hold
Gloucestershire South	Lab	5,338	10.6	86.2%	Lab hold
Gloucestershire Stroud and Thornbury	Con	1,582	2.7	86.0%	Con hold
Gloucestershire West	Lab	6,679	15.9	82.3%	Lab hold
Gosport and Fareham	Con	10,424	20.4	80.9%	Con hold
Greenwich	Lab	10,428	20.8	81.0%	Lab hold
Grimsby	Lab	6,851	13.2	82.0%	Lab hold
Hackney South	Lab	21,268	36.0	77.1%	Lab hold
Halifax	Lab	763	1.3	84.2%	Lab hold
Hammersmith North	Lab	11,080	32.3	81.2%	Lab hold
Hammersmith South	Lab	3,235	9.2	80.2%	Lab hold
Hampshire Aldershot	Con	8,549	20.7	77.8%	Con hold
Hampshire Basingstoke	Con	5,465	11.7	79.9%	Con hold
Hampshire New Forest	Con	14,037	28.6	77.3%	Con hold
Hampshire Petersfield	Con	14,075	27.7	77.8%	Con hold
Hampshire Winchester	Con	7,282	13.0	83.7%	Con hold
Hampstead	Con	12,106	21.3	78.0%	Con hold
Harrow Central	Con	8,024	18.6	85.0%	Con hold
Harrow East	Con	3,171	5.9	87.9%	Con hold
Harrow West	Con	13,747	34.9	83.8%	Con hold
Hastings	Con	14,874	27.5	77.4%	Con hold
Hayes and Harlington	Lab	10,874	29.6	82.2%	Lab hold
Hendon North	Con	2,591	5.5	86.3%	Con hold
Hendon South	Con	10,056	21.3	81.7%	Con hold
Herefordshire Hereford	Lab	7,808	22.6	77.6%	Lab gain from Con
Herefordshire Leominster	Con	10,013	33.5	74.2%	Con hold
Hertfordshire Barnet	Con	13,152	21.1	86.1%	Con hold
Hertfordshire Hemel Hempstead	Con	7,400	16.9	83.8%	Con hold
Hertfordshire Hertford	Con	6,811	12.6	80.8%	Con hold
Hertfordshire Hitchin	Con	2,778	5.3	85.0%	Con hold
Hertfordshire South West	Con	8,058	17.5	85.0%	Con hold
Hertfordshire St Albans	Con	4,691	8.9	84.1%	Con hold
Heston and Isleworth	Con	5,524	8.4	83.8%	Con hold
Holborn and St Pancras South	Lab	1,759	4.3	73.7%	Lab hold
Hornchurch	Lab	1,034	1.6	86.1%	Lab hold
Hornsey	Con	10,774	17.4	82.6%	Con hold
Hove	Con	24,296	48.4	77.4%	Con hold
Huddersfield East	Lab	4,569	11.4	86.6%	Lab hold
Huddersfield West	Lib	6,988	17.0	85.9%	Lib hold
Huntingdonshire	Nat Lib	5,358	14.8	80.8%	Nat Lib hold
Ilford North	Con	10,040	17.5	84.8%	Con hold
Ilford South	Con	5,239	9.5	82.7%	Con hold
Ipswich	Lab	4,236	6.8	85.2%	Lab hold
Isle of Ely	Ind Con	6,404	13.9	75.9%	Ind Con gain from Con
Isle of Wight	Con	12,789	23.6	80.3%	Con hold
Islington East	Lab	7,896	19.8	78.2%	Lab hold
Islington North	Lab	8,865	19.3	77.8%	Lab hold
Islington South-West	Lab	16,887	36.4	77.8%	Lab hold
Keighley	Lab	2,448	5.4	87.5%	Lab hold
Kensington North	Lab	4,143	9.7	79.2%	Lab hold
Kensington South	Con	25,698	59.1	68.6%	Con hold
Kent Ashford	Con	7,448	18.3	81.9%	Con hold
Kent Canterbury	Con	14,089	30.1	90.1%	Con hold
Kent Chislehurst	Con	980	1.6	88.0%	Con hold
Kent Dover	Con	3,516	6.6	85.7%	Con hold
Kent Faversham	Lab	562	1.1	86.0%	Lab hold
Kent Folkestone and Hythe	Con	11,824	29.7	79.0%	Con hold
Kent Gravesend	Lab	5,755	10.6	85.7%	Lab hold
Kent Isle of Thanet	Con	12,659	23.3	78.0%	Con hold
Kent Maidstone	Con	6,447	13.2	80.5%	Con hold
Kent Orpington	Con	11,003	25.3	82.0%	Con hold
Kent Sevenoaks	Con	9,845	20.7	81.5%	Con hold
Kent Tonbridge	Con	10,168	19.3	80.6%	Con hold
Kingston upon Hull Central	Lab	11,261	23.4	76.3%	Lab hold
Kingston upon Hull East	Lab	11,524	23.6	84.2%	Lab hold
Kingston upon Hull Haltemprice	Con	7,584	16.2	82.8%	Con hold
Kingston upon Hull North	Con	2,520	5.9	84.7%	Con hold
Kingston upon Thames	Con	16,399	27.1	81.1%	Con hold
Lambeth Brixton	Lab	5,353	12.1	79.8%	Lab hold
Lambeth Norwood	Con	2,949	5.7	82.7%	Con hold
Lambeth Vauxhall	Lab	11,653	31.7	73.7%	Lab hold
Lancashire Chorley	Lab	583	1.2	88.1%	Lab hold
Lancashire Clitheroe	Con	4,425	10.6	90.1%	Con hold
Lancashire Darwen	Con	3,180	8.7	88.6%	Con hold
Lancashire Farnworth	Lab	8,185	18.4	86.8%	Lab hold
Lancashire Heywood and Royton	Con	4,003	7.7	85.1%	Con hold
Lancashire Huyton	Lab	1,193	2.6	84.8%	Lab hold
Lancashire Ince	Lab	19,843	44.6	87.0%	Lab hold
Lancashire Lancaster	Con	2,456	6.4	86.1%	Con hold
Lancashire Middleton and Prestwich	Con	9,750	20.3	85.0%	Con hold
Lancashire Morecombe and Lonsdale	Con	17,479	38.9	80.4%	Con hold
Lancashire Newton	Lab	8,898	16.5	87.2%	Lab hold
Lancashire North Fylde	Con	14,135	38.5	77.6%	Con hold
Lancashire Ormskirk	Con	13,821	34.9	78.7%	Con hold
Lancashire South Fylde	Con	22,868	48.0	79.9%	Con hold
Lancashire West Houghton	Lab	10,675	22.3	76.5%	Lab hold
Lancashire Widnes	Lab	3,373	8.4	87.4%	Lab hold
Leeds Central	Lab	9,492	24.7	77.1%	Lab hold
Leeds North	Con	13,041	27.4	81.7%	Con hold
Leeds North East	Lab	6,411	16.7	80.9%	Lab hold
Leeds North West	Con	10,383	25.1	82.4%	Con hold
Leeds South	Lab	14,219	30.1	82.2%	Lab hold
Leeds South East	Lab	8,652	21.0	84.4%	Lab hold
Leeds West	Lab	3,400	8.2	85.9%	Lab hold
Leicester North East	Lab	8,731	20.0	84.4%	Lab hold
Leicester North West	Lab	6,059	13.7	84.3%	Lab hold
Leicester South East	Con	7,628	19.0	83.8%	Con hold
Leicester South West	Lab	6,993	16.8	82.5%	Lab hold
Leicestershire Bosworth	Lab	7,645	14.2	85.4%	Lab hold
Leicestershire Harborough	Con	7,747	13.8	87.6%	Con hold
Leicestershire Loughborough	Lab	6,323	13.9	85.9%	Lab hold
Leicestershire Melton	Con	6,381	12.5	85.5%	Con hold
Leigh	Lab	14,296	26.7	86.0%	Lab hold
Lewisham North	Con	3,163	6.9	84.0%	Con hold
Lewisham South	Lab	7,011	14.4	85.2%	Lab hold
Lewisham West	Con	2,636	5.5	85.9%	Con hold
Leyton	Lab	10,165	15.6	82.2%	Lab hold
Lincnolshire (Parts of Lindsey) Louth	Con	5,768	14.3	80.5%	Con hold
Lincoln	Lab	3,560	8.2	87.7%	Lab hold
Lincolnshire (Parts of Holland) Holland With Boston	Nat Lib	8,689	15.9	78.7%	Nat Lib hold
Lincolnshire (Parts of Kesteven and Rutlandshire) Grantham	Con	2,172	4.6	84.1%	Con hold
Lincolnshire (Parts of Kesteven and Rutlandshire) Rutland and Stamford	Con	2,723	8.3	82.2%	Con hold
Lincolnshire (Parts of Lindsey) Brigg	Lab	8,089	14.9	82.4%	Lab hold
Lincolnshire (Parts of Lindsey) Gainsborough	Con	3,841	9.5	80.1%	Con hold
Lincolnshire (Parts of Lindsey) Horncastle	Con	10,900	32.9	76.7%	Con hold
Liverpool Edge Hill	Lab	3,337	7.9	76.4%	Lab hold
Liverpool Exchange	Lab	6,835	20.8	69.2%	Lab hold
Liverpool Garston	Con	16,625	30.4	80.0%	Con hold
Liverpool Kirkdale	Lab	758	2.0	77.9%	Lab hold
Liverpool Scotland	Lab	15,214	36.3	71.1%	Lab hold
Liverpool Toxteth	Con	3,634	8.5	77.5%	Con hold
Liverpool Walton	Con	3,752	7.2	81.0%	Con hold
Liverpool Wavertree	Con	8,477	17.7	78.3%	Con hold
Liverpool West Derby	Con	1,707	3.2	80.3%	Con hold
Luton	Nat Lib	2,712	5.4	87.6%	Nat Lib hold
Manchester Ardwick	Lab	4,418	11.1	78.5%	Lab hold
Manchester Blackley	Con	2,272	4.4	85.0%	Con gain from Lab
Manchester Cheetham	Lab	9,008	24.6	75.3%	Lab hold
Manchester Clayton	Lab	11,863	26.9	78.6%	Lab hold
Manchester Exchange	Lab	3,594	10.8	71.8%	Lab hold
Manchester Gorton	Lab	7,948	16.0	81.8%	Lab hold
Manchester Moss Side	Con	10,878	24.4	77.0%	Con hold
Manchester Withington	Con	12,200	29.5	79.6%	Con hold
Manchester Wythenshawe	Con	6,566	13.0	80.4%	Con hold
Merton and Morden	Con	4,402	9.1	86.7%	Con hold
Middlesborough East	Lab	15,528	33.0	80.9%	Lab hold
Middlesbrough West	Con	2,097	4.5	86.3%	Con gain from Lab
Middlesex Spelthorne	Con	1,123	1.8	83.9%	Con hold
Middlesex Uxbridge	Lab	1,548	3.6	84.7%	Lab hold
Mitcham	Con	5,869	9.4	84.6%	Con hold
Nelson and Colne	Lab	4,400	9.4	89.0%	Lab hold
Newcastle under Lyme	Lab	8,536	16.1	87.5%	Lab hold
Newcastle upon Tyne Central	Lab	12,312	30.8	80.9%	Lab hold
Newcastle upon Tyne East	Lab	2,771	5.7	86.6%	Lab hold
Newcastle upon Tyne North	Nat Lib	6,925	14.8	84.6%	Nat Lib gain from Con
Newcastle upon Tyne West	Lab	8,684	15.8	87.2%	Lab hold
Norfolk Central	Nat Lib	3,939	10.2	81.8%	Nat Lib hold
Norfolk King'S Lynn	Con	937	2.2	82.8%	Con gain from Lab
Norfolk North	Lab	279	0.7	83.7%	Lab hold
Norfolk South	Con	3,239	9.0	82.4%	Con hold
Norfolk South West	Con	442	1.3	82.6%	Con gain from Lab
Norfolk Yarmouth	Con	1,015	2.3	83.3%	Con gain from Lab
Northampton	Lab	4,794	7.3	86.4%	Lab hold
Northamptonshire (and the Soke of Peterborough) Kettering	Lab	6,827	11.7	87.2%	Lab hold
Northamptonshire (and the Soke of Peterborough) Peterborough	Con	373	0.7	86.8%	Con hold
Northamptonshire (and the Soke of Peterborough) South	Con	2,848	7.2	85.9%	Con hold
Northamptonshire (and the Soke of Peterborough) Wellingborough	Lab	2,201	4.8	88.4%	Lab hold
Northumberland Berwick upon Tweed	Con	6,563	19.6	78.8%	Con hold
Northumberland Hexham	Con	7,499	19.2	82.4%	Con hold
Northumberland Morpeth	Lab	16,875	43.8	85.5%	Lab hold
Norwich North	Lab	9,293	25.5	84.1%	Lab hold
Norwich South	Con	1,848	5.1	84.3%	Con hold
Nottingham Central	Lab	139	0.3	81.4%	Lab hold
Nottingham East	Lab	264	0.6	83.3%	Lab hold
Nottingham North West	Lab	15,044	29.9	83.4%	Lab hold
Nottingham South	Lab	482	1.2	84.5%	Lab hold
Nottinghamshire Bassetlaw	Lab	11,593	21.4	84.4%	Lab hold
Nottinghamshire Broxtowe	Lab	22,043	45.4	84.1%	Lab hold
Nottinghamshire Carlton	Con	3,744	7.6	87.0%	Con hold
Nottinghamshire Mansfield	Lab	21,136	39.8	83.3%	Lab hold
Nottinghamshire Newark	Lab	7,659	14.4	85.5%	Lab hold
Nottinghamshire Rushcliffe	Con	8,466	15.8	86.0%	Con hold
Oldbury and Halesowen	Lab	6,272	11.4	83.3%	Lab hold
Oldham East	Con	2,057	4.4	82.8%	Con gain from Lab
Oldham West	Lab	4,195	8.9	83.5%	Lab hold
Oxford	Con	6,940	12.0	82.0%	Con hold
Oxfordshire Banbury	Con	3,574	7.2	82.8%	Con hold
Oxfordshire Henley	Con	6,531	16.0	78.3%	Con hold
Paddington North	Lab	4,049	11.3	81.0%	Lab hold
Paddington South	Con	6,809	19.6	71.7%	Con hold
Plymouth Devonport	Lab	2,390	3.9	85.3%	Lab hold
Plymouth Sutton	Con	710	1.2	85.4%	Con gain from Lab
Pontefract	Lab	24,237	52.3	86.0%	Lab hold
Poole	Con	8,652	17.2	85.0%	Con hold
Poplar	Lab	24,502	64.1	75.7%	Lab hold
Portsmouth Langstone	Con	13,055	25.9	81.7%	Con hold
Portsmouth South	Con	13,198	27.6	80.8%	Con hold
Portsmouth West	Con	1,248	2.5	83.5%	Con hold
Preston North	Con	1,108	2.4	87.5%	Con hold
Preston South	Lab	16	0.0	86.5%	Lab hold
Pudsey	Con	3,356	7.5	88.9%	Con hold
Reading North	Con	302	0.9	86.8%	Con gain from Lab
Reading South	Lab	1,009	2.8	86.7%	Lab hold
Richmond	Con	14,036	26.8	82.8%	Con hold
Rochdale	Con	454	0.8	85.7%	Con gain from Lab
Rochester and Chatham	Lab	847	1.6	85.5%	Lab hold
Romford	Con	1,298	2.0	83.8%	Con hold
Rossendale	Lab	1,670	3.5	88.6%	Lab hold
Rotherham	Lab	14,807	31.2	84.2%	Lab hold
Rowley Regis and Tipton	Lab	16,316	33.4	80.8%	Lab hold
Ruislip Northwood	Con	10,804	27.2	84.6%	Con hold
Salford East	Lab	6,778	13.9	79.7%	Lab hold
Salford West	Lab	3,487	6.8	83.0%	Lab hold
Sheffield Attercliffe	Lab	17,797	42.3	82.7%	Lab hold
Sheffield Brightside	Lab	19,086	42.4	81.4%	Lab hold
Sheffield Hallam	Nat Lib	17,028	41.5	82.0%	Nat Lib hold
Sheffield Heeley	Nat Lib	10,047	22.1	84.6%	Nat Lib hold
Sheffield Hillsborough	Lab	8,657	18.1	84.9%	Lab hold
Sheffield Neepsend	Lab	18,225	46.1	79.5%	Lab hold
Sheffield Park	Lab	17,099	38.4	82.5%	Lab hold
Shoreditch and Finsbury	Lab	18,763	45.2	73.2%	Lab hold
Shropshire Ludlow	Con	7,477	20.4	77.7%	Con hold
Shropshire Oswestry	Con	9,372	24.5	76.9%	Con hold
Shropshire Shrewsbury	Con	6,768	18.7	80.7%	Con hold
Shropshire the Wrekin	Lab	1,804	4.7	83.1%	Lab hold
Smethwick	Lab	9,727	21.3	83.5%	Lab hold
Somerset Bridgwater	Con	5,709	12.7	84.6%
Somerset North	Con	2,548	4.9	88.5%	Con hold
Somerset Taunton	Con	3,981	8.7	89.0%	Con hold
Somerset Wells	Con	5,043	10.5	84.2%	Con hold
Somerset Weston Super Mare	Con	14,543	31.3	79.7%	Con hold
Somerset Yeovil	Con	2,921	5.8	88.0%	Con hold
South Shields	Lab	13,425	22.3	80.5%	Lab hold
Southall	Lab	7,954	15.8	84.0%	Lab hold
Southampton Itchen	Lab	4,622	8.3	83.6%	Lab hold
Southampton Test	Lab	465	0.9	83.5%	Lab hold
Southend East	Con	4,610	10.6	80.6%	Con hold
Southend West	Con	21,755	38.3	79.0%	Con hold
Southgate	Con	19,155	39.6	84.1%	Con hold
Southport	Con	17,853	35.4	77.7%	Con hold
Southwark	Lab	22,554	44.6	72.3%	Lab hold
St Helens	Lab	15,858	26.6	79.7%	Lab hold
St Marylebone	Lab	14,819	34.7	70.2%	Lab gain from Con
St Pancras North	Lab	10,829	21.0	78.3%	Lab hold
Staffordshire Brierley Hill	Lab	2,298	4.7	85.0%	Lab hold
Staffordshire Burton	Con	733	1.5	86.3%	Con hold
Staffordshire Cannock	Lab	16,338	33.7	83.1%	Lab hold
Staffordshire Leek	Lab	1,910	3.4	86.2%	Lab hold
Staffordshire Lichfield and Tamworth	Lab	2,885	5.3	85.5%	Lab hold
Staffordshire Stafford and Stone	Con	6,046	13.3	84.1%	Con hold
Stepney	Lab	28,263	60.3	70.9%	Lab hold
Stockport North	Con	4,798	10.3	85.4%	Con hold
Stockport South	Con	3,400	8.3	84.2%	Con hold
Stockton on Tees	Lab	5,047	11.5	88.0%	Lab hold
Stoke Newington and Hackney North	Lab	16,037	25.3	78.9%	Lab hold
Stoke on Trent Central	Lab	15,490	29.2	82.2%	Lab hold
Stoke on Trent North	Lab	22,024	42.9	83.8%	Lab hold
Stoke on Trent South	Lab	16,906	31.5	84.2%	Lab hold
Stretford	Con	9,725	15.9	83.4%	Con hold
Suffolk Bury St. Edmunds	Con	3,989	8.8	79.8%	Con hold
Suffolk Eye	Con	2,183	4.5	83.3%	Con gain from Lib
Suffolk Lowestoft	Lab	847	1.8	81.9%	Lab hold
Suffolk Sudbury and Woodbridge	Con	5,952	12.3	82.1%	Con hold
Sunderland North	Lab	3,490	7.9	83.7%	Lab hold
Sunderland South	Lab	306	0.6	82.2%	Lab hold
Surrey Carshalton	Con	9,706	17.5	85.1%	Con hold
Surrey Chertsey	Con	5,690	14.8	81.1%	Con hold
Surrey Dorking	Con	11,752	31.7	80.7%	Con hold
Surrey East	Con	23,910	46.0	81.3%	Con hold
Surrey Epsom	Con	19,749	37.3	81.9%	Con hold
Surrey Esher	Con	18,421	34.3	83.3%	Con hold
Surrey Farnham	Con	10,198	26.6	80.4%	Con hold
Surrey Guildford	Con	11,536	26.4	79.6%	Con hold
Surrey Reigate	Con	9,850	22.8	83.3%	Con hold
Surrey Woking	Con	12,209	29.9	78.7%	Con hold
Sussex (East) East Grinstead	Con	18,532	34.0	80.3%	Con hold
Sussex (East) Eastbourne	Con	20,061	34.3	81.9%	Con hold
Sussex (East) Lewes	Con	17,263	33.6	78.3%	Con hold
Sussex (West) Arundel and Shoreham	Con	18,023	34.8	78.0%	Con hold
Sussex (West) Chichester	Con	18,195	39.4	77.3%	Con hold
Sussex (West) Horsham	Con	12,401	32.6	77.7%	Con hold
Sutton and Cheam	Con	12,482	25.5	81.7%	Con hold
Swindon	Lab	5,908	14.1	84.8%	Lab hold
The Hartlepools	Lab	2,710	5.3	86.6%	Lab hold
Torquay	Con	16,640	31.3	80.0%	Con hold
Tottenham	Lab	13,251	24.8	79.8%	Lab hold
Twickenham	Con	15,209	24.2	81.3%	Con hold
Tynemouth	Con	7,656	12.8	84.5%	Con hold
Wakefield	Lab	7,702	16.6	85.3%	Lab hold
Wallasey	Con	15,705	26.6	79.7%	Con hold
Wallsend	Lab	10,579	17.4	87.2%	Lab hold
Walsall	Lab	10,473	16.3	83.1%	Lab hold
Walthamstow East	Lab	1,020	2.6	85.8%	Lab hold
Walthamstow West	Lab	11,574	33.6	81.9%	Lab hold
Wandsworth Central	Lab	1,183	2.1	83.7%	Lab hold
Wandsworth Clapham	Lab	1,308	2.7	81.9%	Lab hold
Wandsworth Putney	Con	6,197	11.7	81.9%	Con hold
Wandsworth Streatham	Con	12,280	27.2	81.5%	Con hold
Warrington	Lab	8,602	19.0	82.7%	Lab hold
Warwickshire Nuneaton	Lab	18,295	30.8	85.0%	Lab hold
Warwickshire Rugby	Lab	199	0.5	87.7%	Lab hold
Warwickshire Solihull	Con	16,124	40.7	83.2%	Con hold
Warwickshire Stratford	Con	10,795	29.0	79.9%	Con hold
Warwickshire Sutton Coldfield	Ind Con	15,735	27.4	81.6%	Ind Con gain from Con
Warwickshire Warwick and Leamington	Con	9,803	21.0	82.4%	Con hold
Watford	Lab	508	1.1	87.2%	Lab hold
Wednesbury	Lab	12,225	21.0	82.3%	Lab hold
Wembley North	Con	8,718	20.2	87.1%	Con hold
Wembley South	Con	4,834	11.5	86.0%	Con hold
West Bromwich	Lab	13,659	28.4	80.5%	Lab hold
West Ham North	Lab	19,828	40.9	76.6%	Lab hold
West Ham South	Lab	30,609	69.9	77.3%	Lab hold
Westmorland	Con	14,108	35.4	83.5%	Con hold
Wigan	Lab	17,452	33.8	87.0%	Lab hold
Willesden East	Lab	1,868	3.6	81.8%	Lab hold
Willesden West	Lab	15,664	28.5	82.7%	Lab hold
Wiltshire Chippenham	Con	4,878	12.1	81.5%	Con hold
Wiltshire Devizes	Con	1,577	4.0	81.4%	Con hold
Wiltshire Salisbury	Con	5,412	14.2	80.2%	Con hold
Wiltshire Westbury	Con	2,031	4.5	86.2%	Con hold
Wimbledon	Con	20,794	32.7	82.6%	Con hold
Wolverhampton North East	Lab	12,080	24.6	80.9%	Lab hold
Wolverhampton South West	Con	3,196	7.2	86.3%	Con hold
Wood Green	Lab	6,300	11.6	81.7%	Lab hold
Woodford	Con	18,579	28.6	83.4%	Con hold
Woolwich East	Lab	11,562	27.3	72.0%	Lab hold
Woolwich West	Con	1,344	2.8	87.5%	Con hold
Worcester	Con	5,151	11.0	82.1%	Con hold
Worcestershire Bromsgrove	Con	2,653	5.2	86.5%	Con hold
Worcestershire Kidderminster	Con	5,158	11.3	83.0%	Con hold
Worcestershire South	Con	12,795	30.7	75.9%	Con hold
Worthing	Con	21,324	49.3	80.0%	Con hold
York	Con	921	1.4	86.4%	Con hold
Yorkshire (East Riding) Beverley	Con	15,159	32.1	80.0%	Con hold
Yorkshire (East Riding) Bridlington	Con	17,645	35.3	78.4%	Con hold
Yorkshire (North Riding) Cleveland	Lab	5,481	9.6	85.1%	Lab hold
Yorkshire (North Riding) Richmond	Con	15,316	41.2	74.4%	Con hold
Yorkshire (North Riding) Scarborough and Whitby	Con	16,367	33.0	75.9%	Con hold
Yorkshire (North Riding) Thirsk and Malton	Con	17,162	44.5	77.4%	Con hold
Yorkshire (West Riding) Barkston Ash	Con	6,618	15.2	85.1%	Con hold
Yorkshire (West Riding) Colne Valley	Lab	2,189	4.3	87.1%	Lab hold
Yorkshire (West Riding) Dearne Valley	Lab	29,585	59.2	85.9%	Lab hold
Yorkshire (West Riding) Don Valley	Lab	25,825	48.2	85.9%	Lab hold
Yorkshire (West Riding) Goole	Lab	9,015	20.9	84.2%	Lab hold
Yorkshire (West Riding) Harrogate	Con	16,785	41.1	78.7%	Con hold
Yorkshire (West Riding) Hemsworth	Lab	37,491	65.4	85.1%	Lab hold
Yorkshire (West Riding) Normanton	Lab	19,853	47.0	85.5%	Lab hold
Yorkshire (West Riding) Penistone	Lab	15,994	28.4	85.1%	Lab hold
Yorkshire (West Riding) Ripon	Con	12,420	36.9	83.1%	Con hold
Yorkshire (West Riding) Rother Valley	Lab	28,520	51.4	86.3%	Lab hold
Yorkshire (West Riding) Shipley	Con	1,503	3.5	90.5%	Con hold
Yorkshire (West Riding) Skipton	Con	7,960	18.1	86.1%	Con hold
Yorkshire (West Riding) Sowerby	Lab	1,648	3.3	86.9%	Lab hold

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Questions and answers

Who won in England at the 1951 general election?

The Conservatives won 255 of the 506 seats in England, with 45.2% of the vote.

How many seats were there in England in 1951?

506 constituencies.

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