1952 Central Shaneville Presidential election

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1952 Central Shanevlle presidential election
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264 seats in the Central Shaneville Parliament (CSP)
133 seats needed for a majority
Turnout80%
  First party Second party Third party
  John Dunster.jpg Eric Lomax.jpg Margaret MacMillan CSV.jpg
Leader John Dunster Eric Lomax Magaret MacMillan
Party Liberal Party Progressive Conservative Party New Democratic Party
Leader since August 1949 January 1948 November 1944
Leader's seat Sassari Bastia Lincoln Island
Last election 3,315,499 (39.7%) 2,189,483 (26.2%) 2,294,737 (27.5%)
Seats before 103 54 86
Seats won 145 69 31
Seat change +42 +15 -55
FPTP vote 3,939,904 2,130,630 1,720,634
Percentage 47.0% 25.4% 20.5%
Swing - - -

  Fourth party
  John Foster CSV.jpg
Leader John Foster
Party Social Credit Workers' Party
Leader since November 1944
Leader's seat Northern Territory
Last election 440,685 (5.3%)
Seats before 21
Seats won 19
Seat change -2
FPTP vote 491,586
Percentage 5.9%
Swing -

President of Central Shaneville before election

John Dunster
Democratic Liberal

President of Central Shaneville

John Dunster
Democratic Liberal

The 1952 Central Shaneville Presidential election was held on the 14 November 1952.

The 1952 campaign trail is once again targeted by the other parties as a way to try and wrestle power away from the Liberals, they were successful in taking away the Liberal majority in 1948 however felt they can go one step further and called out Dunster for his inexperience - Dunster responded by saying that he intended to govern with the same experience and wisdom that had served his party so well in the past.

Following the election, John Dunster was declared President after winning a Liberal majority, he thanked the people of Central Shaneville for giving him a chance and vowed that if he didn't do a good enough job then he wouldn't run for re-election.

Exit Poll

The Exit Poll took place a week before the election and predicted the following:

Parties Seats Change
Liberal Party 163 -
Progressive Conservative Party 54 -
New Democratic Party 24 -
Social Credit Workers' Party 14 -
Undecided 9 -
LIBERAL PARTY WINS A MAJORITY GOVERNMENT

Results

After all electoral districts had been declared, the results were:

Party Leader MLs Votes
Of total Of total
Progressive Conservative Party Eric Lomax 0 0.0%
0 / 264
xxx 0.0
0.0%
Liberal Party John Dunster
(Incumbent)
0 0.0%
0 / 264
xxx 0.0%'
0.0%
New Democratic Party Margaret MacMillan 0 0.0%
0 / 264
xxx 0.0%
0.0%
Social Credit Workers' Party John Foster 0 0.0%
0 / 264
xxx 0.0%
0.0%


Voting summary

Popular vote
Liberal Party
47.0%
Conservative Party
25.4%
New Democratic Party
20.5%
Social Credit Workers' Party
5.9%