Newfoundland general election, 1971

The 36th Newfoundland general election was held on 28 October 1971 to elect members of the 35th General Assembly of Newfoundland, the seventh general election for the province of Newfoundland, Canada. It resulted in a hung parliament as, with the support of the Labrador Party's lone MHA, the Smallwood government had the support of 21 MHAs compared to 21 for the Progressive Conservative party. Smallwood ultimately resigned in January 1972 allowing Moores' Tories to form a government but the instability in the House led to the March 24, 1972 provincial election.^[1]

Results

	Party	Photo	Leader	1966	Seats won	% change	Popular vote	(%)
	Progressive Conservative		Frank Moores	3	21	+600%	118,899	51.3%
	Liberal		Joey Smallwood	39	20	-49%	102,775	44.4%
	New Democratic		John Connors	0	0	0%	4,075	1.8%
	Labrador		Tom Burgess	-	1	N/A	*	2.4%
	Other			0	0	0%	5,804	0.1%
Totals				42	42	-	233,573	100%

^[2] *Labrador Party's votes included in "Other" votes

References

↑ Former Newfoundland premier Frank Moores dies. CBC News, June 11, 2005 (Dead Link)
↑ General Election Returns, Elections Newfoundland and Labrador, accessed 2013-11-04

"Seat Count Results in Newfoundland & Labrador Provincial Elections". Election Almanac. Election Almanac. Retrieved 9 April 2014.

Elections and referendums in Newfoundland and Labrador

General elections	Pre-Confederation: 1832 1836 1837 1842 1848 1852 1855 1859 1861 1865 1869 1873 1874 1878 1882 1885 1889 1893 1897 1900 1904 1908 1909 1913 1919 1923 1924 1928 1932 Post-Confederation: 1949 1951 1956 1959 1962 1966 1971 1972 1975 1979 1982 1985 1989 1993 1996 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

Referendums	1915 1948

See also: List of Newfoundland and Labrador by-elections

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