1951 Australian Labor Party leadership election
A leadership election in the Australian Labor Party, then the opposition party in the Parliament of Australia, was held on 20 June 1951. It saw the election of Leader H. V. Evatt as leader following the death of sitting leader Ben Chifley.
Evatt, then deputy-leader of the ALP, was returned in the caucus ballot unopposed as Chifley's successor with Arthur Calwell then elected to fill the now vacant deputy-leadership.
