Australian federal election, 1951
- Australian federal election, 1951
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History
In 1944, Sir Robert Menzies founded the Liberal Party of Australia (descended from the United Australia Party). After winning government at the 1949 election Menzies led the Party for 16 years through successive re-elections with the traditional coalition in place with the Country Party (the predecessor of the current National Party). Labor remained out of government for 23 years after the defeat of the Chifley Government in 1949, largely due to the split of the Democratic Labor Party from Labor - also three times the party won the two-party preferred vote (the 1954, 1961 and 1969 elections) but not enough seats to form government.
Attempts by Menzies to ban the Communist Party of Australia came to a head when the legislation was declared invalid by the High Court of Australia, and failed in the subsequent 1951 Australian referendum.
References
* [http://elections.uwa.edu.au/ University of WA] election results in Australia since 1890
* [http://www.aec.gov.au/Elections/Australian_Electoral_History/House_of_Representative_1949_Present.htm AEC 2PP vote]
*Prior to 1984 the AEC did not undertake a full distribution of preferences for statistical purposes. The stored ballot papers for the 1983 election were put through this process prior to their destruction. Therefore the figures from 1983 onwards show the actual result based on full distribution of preferences.
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