The British General Election of 1951*

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1537-5943|46|2|398-405

ISSN: 0003-0554

Source: American Political Science Review, Vol.46, Iss.2, 1952-06, pp. : 398-405

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Abstract

A good case could be made for the thesis that the election of 1951 was simply the second phase of the election of 1950. Not only were they near in point of time—nineteen months apart—but also the inconclusive nature of the 1950 results left all parties looking toward a second contest the moment the outcome of the first was known. In a sense the whole of the interval between February, 1950, and October, 1951, was a period of electoral campaigning. And to an extent unusual in British politics, the minds both of party leaders and of party members ran continuously on the contest ahead.