Talk:1950 United Kingdom general election

Churchill photo

Would be nice to have a photo of Churchill taken around 1950 rather than the current photo, which is dated 1941 when he looked around 30 years younger. Tempshill 17:22, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

have uploaded one found on the BBC site, of him addressing people! Hope it is of worth.

FeZzYwEzZy [Birth.Life.Death] - Do It All Or Die Trying... 10:14, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

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Labour lost a net 78 seats

Labour lost a net 78 seats, as listed in a couple of places in the article. They did not lose only the seat of Bexley. For some reason, an anonymous user who is generally making sensible contributions keeps adding the plainly wrong claim that they lost only the Bexley seat to the table. Please stop doing this! Warofdreams talk 09:55, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Clement Davis image in infobox

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when ? who ?

the fifth sentence of the introduction is

Labour called another general election in 1951.

Who was the driving force ? (Attlee ?) Who (person, board or body) took the decision in the end ? --Neun-x (talk) 16:26, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Colours?

We see 8 colours on the map/house of commons composition but only 3 parties are given seats in the results. Who are the missing colours? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:6E00:1E17:B001:2239:56FF:FE8D:DDB2 (talk) 02:09, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Contradiction between article and illustrations

Per the comment by the IP poster in October 2021 above, there is a difference between the composition of the Commons shown in the article and the composition shown in the illustrations accompanying the article. I'm presuming that this has occurred because the article has consolidated various Conservative-linked parties in Scotland and Northern Ireland into the total number of Conservative seats, but without a matching consolidation occurring in the preparation of illustrations. Is there a consensus for how this is handled in other general election articles? XAM2175 ^(T) 21:03, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Further to the above, there are also errors in the graphics.

(1) The map includes a pale green constituency in Northern Ireland (not represented on the composition chart), but this is incorrect. Northern Ireland had two Nationalist MPs (according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_Northern_Ireland)

(2) The composition chart indicates an Independent Liberal MP, but this is not shown on the map. By tracking down other pages, it seems that this refers to John MacLeod, MP for Ross and Cromarty, but this constituency is coloured as for the Conservatives. It appears MacLeod had been an Independent Liberal in 1945, becoming a National Liberal in 1947, but after these merged with the Conservatives in 1950 he called himself a 'Liberal and Conservative', typically voting with the Conservative Party. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_and_Cromarty_(UK_Parliament_constituency); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_MacLeod_(Ross_and_Cromarty_MP) ) 18X4Z (talk) 07:01, 7 July 2024 (UTC)