The following elections occurred in the year 1951:
Africa
- 1951 Gambian legislative election
- 1951 Gold Coast legislative election
- 1951 Liberian general election
- 1951 Sierra Leonean legislative election
Asia
- 1951–1952 Burmese general election
- India:
- 1951 Israeli legislative election
- 1951 Israeli presidential election
- 1951 Philippine Senate election
- 1951 Singaporean general election
- 1951 Soviet Union regional elections
Australia
Europe
- 1951 Austrian presidential election
- 1951 Finnish parliamentary election
- 1951 French legislative election
- Germany: 1951 Rhineland-Palatinate state election
- 1951 Greek legislative election
- 1951 Irish general election
- 1951 Luxembourg general election
- 1951 Maltese general election
- 1951 Norwegian local elections
- 1951 Soviet Union regional elections
- United Kingdom