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Elections to Sale Council were held on Thursday, 10 May 1951. One third of the councillors were up for election, with each successful candidate to serve a three-year term of office. The Conservative Party retained overall control of the council. [1] [2]
| Party | Votes | Seats | Full Council | |||||||
| Conservative Party | 7,879 (68.5%) |  3.1 | 9 (100.0%) | 9 / 9 |  | 31 (96.9%) | 31 / 32 | |||
| Labour Party | 3,131 (27.2%) |  3.4 | 0 (0.0%) | 0 / 9 | | 1 (3.1%) | 1 / 32 | |||
| Liberal Party | 490 (4.3%) | 0.8 | 0 (0.0%) | 0 / 9 | | 0 (0.0%) | 0 / 32 | |||
| 1 | 31 |
| 8 |
| 1 | 23 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | J. G. Steel* | uncontested | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | W. A. Jones* | uncontested | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | F. S. Laughton* | uncontested | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | C. J. Hobson | 1,580 | 73.8 | -0.2 | |
| Labour | L. G. Ditcham | 562 | 26.2 | +0.2 | |
| Majority | 1,018 | 47.6 | -0.4 | ||
| Turnout | 2,142 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | J. K. Kerr | 1,285 | 40.9 | ||
| Conservative | R. M. Willan* | 1,245 | 39.6 | ||
| Labour | E. W. Brownjohn | 615 | 19.6 | ||
| Majority | 630 | 20.0 | |||
| Turnout | 3,145 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | E. Lee | 1,208 | 71.1 | -2.9 | |
| Liberal | B. T. Ames | 490 | 28.9 | +2.9 | |
| Majority | 718 | 42.2 | -5.8 | ||
| Turnout | 1,698 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | V. S. Webb* | 1,083 | 58.7 | +1.0 | |
| Labour | A. Howarth | 761 | 41.3 | +1.6 | |
| Majority | 322 | 17.6 | -0.4 | ||
| Turnout | 1,844 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | L. Bethell* | 1,478 | 55.3 | +9.2 | |
| Labour | C. B. Bloor | 1,193 | 44.7 | -9.2 | |
| Majority | 285 | 10.7 | |||
| Turnout | 2,671 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
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