Haughey's first attempt at election to the Dáil came in June 1951, when he unsuccessfully contested the general election.

However, it resumed in 1951, and has been contested every year since with only two exceptions, 1957 ( Suez Crisis ) and 1967 ( Foot and Mouth Disease ).

Macmillan contested Seaham at the 1945 election, Lincoln in 1951 and Wakefield at a 1954 by-election.

Stonehouse was first elected as Labour Co-operative Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Wednesbury in a 1957 by-election, having contested Twickenham in 1950 and Burton in 1951.

So Trueman and Whitehead, who made 13 appearances, contested the fourth bowling place but one of the bit players was Bob Appleyard, who would make a major impact in 1951.

At the 1951 general election, Ashley contested Finchley without success.

Atkins contested the constituency of West Lothian in 1951, and was elected as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Merton and Morden in 1955.

He contested the Parliamentary seat of Tiverton in 1950, 1951 and 1955 before moving to the more promising seat of Colne Valley.

The seat was initially won by the Nationalist Party in 1950 and 1951, the closely contested 1951 election seeing a 93. 4 % turnout-a UK record for any election.

Moawad made his first foray into politics in 1951, when he unsuccessfully contested a Zgharta seat in the National Assembly.

In the Games, " Mr. Asia of 1951 " was also contested as the non-medal event.

In the Assam assembly elections of 1951 MU won all three seats it contested.

It was the fifth round of the 1951 World Drivers ' Championship and was contested over 90 laps.

KLP contested the 1951 Lok Sabha elections, winning one seat.

The party only contested five seats in the 1951 election, however, due to bad road conditions and high deposits.

Defeated in the 1950 general election, she unsuccessfully contested Epping in 1951 and 1955.

It was the first seat contested by Margaret Thatcher ( then Margaret Roberts ), at the 1950 and 1951 general elections.

The Tigers won their next premiership in 1950, and in 1951 Easts contested the Grand Final being beaten by Southern Suburbs, This meant that, since the revival of the club in 1946, they had played six finals in succession.

He contested the seat of St Marylebone at the General Election for the Labour Party in 1950, West Woolwich in 1951 and South Nottingham in 1959.

Wadsworth contested the Sheffield Hillsborough constituency in the 1951 general election as a Conservative / National Liberal candidate but failed to take the seat from Labour, being defeated 28, 274 votes to 19, 617.

On 10 October 1951 Grenada held its first general elections on the basis of universal adult suffrage-United Labour won 6 of the 8 elected seats on the Legislative Council in both the 1951 and 1954 elections.

The Antigua Labour Party ( ALP ), formed by Bird and other trade unionists, first ran candidates in the 1946 elections and became the majority party in 1951 beginning a long history of electoral victories.

The first Legislative Yuan was to have been elected for a term of three years ending in 1951 ; however, the fall of the Mainland made it impossible to hold new elections.

Unsuccessful in Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann elections in 1948 and 1951, he was re-appointed as Attorney General in 1951 and in 1953 he was appointed as the youngest member of the Supreme Court by his mentor, de Valera.

Six elections ( 1951, 1957, 1962, 1968, 1978 and 1988 ) have taken place with no opposition candidate, although a vote was still held.

They won the legislative elections of 1951, and Guèye lost his seat.

In February 1951, the first elections were held for the Legislative Assembly under the new constitution.

Isabel had very little in the way of political experience or ambitions and she was a very different personality from Evita, who was more involved with politics and had been denied the post of Vice President in the 1951 elections.

Still enormously popular in late 1951, Mosaddegh called elections.

During this period the party stood for elections in Northern Ireland, after a split in the Northern Ireland Labour Party when Paddy Devlin helped re-establish the party in Belfast, the party did win seats in the Westminster Parliament ( Jack Beattie MP for West Belfast 1951 ) and Stormont Parliament in the Belfast area as well as in district council elections ( Falls, Belfast City Council by election 1956, Gerry Fitt 1958 Council Elections ).

New elections in 1951 were subject to the same sort of rigging that had characterized the 1948 voting.

Two subsequent elections were held in 1951 and 1953 where the Nationalists formed short-lived coalitions with the Malta Workers Party ( which, over the years, eventually disintegrated ).

The two parties joined forces under the name " Federalist Union ", first in parliament since 1951, and in 1957 the general elections, but the results were disappointing.

He founded the Intransigence and Renewal Movement ( MIR ) faction of the UCR and stood for Vice President on Ricardo Balbín's UCR ticket for the 1951 elections, which they lost overwhelmingly to incumbent, President Juan Perón.

Early or " snap " elections have occurred at least three times in New Zealand's history: in 1951, 1984 and 2002.

Note that of the three elections in which the government won an increased majority, two involved snap elections ( 1951 and 2002 ) – the other incumbent-boosting election took place in 1938 ).

New Zealand has had three snap elections, in 1951, 1984 and 2002.

He surprised many by narrowly losing the Inverness by-election, 1954, coming close again at the general elections in 1951 and 1955.

The same year, Tarar entered Punjab Law College, where he secured his LLB in 1951.

He was called on to be the Revenue Minister of the recently formed Patiala and East Punjab States Union, under Chief Minister Gian Singh Rarewala in 1949 and later became Minister of Agriculture in 1951.

Indian Olympic Association ( IOA ) member Guru Dutt Sondhi and the Maharaja of Patiala, Rajpramukh of Patiala and East Punjab States Union and president of the IOA HRH Yadavindra Singh played a significant role in the inception of Asian Games and in organising the 1951 Asiad.

Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri () ( born February 19, 1951 ) is a Pakistani Sufi scholar and former professor of international constitutional law at the University of the Punjab.

Madan Lal Udhouram Sharma ( Punjabi ਮਦਨ ਲ ਾ ਲ, Hindi मदन ल ा ल and Urdu مدن لال ادی رام شرما ) ( born March 20, 1951, Amritsar, Punjab, India ) is a former Indian cricketer ( 1974 – 1987 ) and Indian national cricket coach born in a Brahmin family.

Jallianwala Bagh ( Punjabi: ਜਲ ੍ ਹ ਿ ਆ ਂ ਵ ਾ ਲ ਾ ਬ ਾ ਗ ਼, Hindi: जल ि य ां व ा ल ा ब ा ग ़) is a public garden in Amritsar in the Punjab state of India, and houses a memorial of national importance, established in 1951 to commemorate the murder of peaceful celebrators on the occasion of the Punjabi New Year on April 13, 1919 in the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.