The 1971 Newfoundland general election was held on 28 October 1971 to elect members of the
35th General Assembly of Newfoundland
The members of the 35th General Assembly of Newfoundland were elected in the Newfoundland general election held in October 1971. The votes were evenly divided between the Liberal Party and the Progressive Conservatives.
The election resulted in ...
. It resulted in a
hung parliament
A hung parliament is a term used in legislatures primarily under the Westminster system to describe a situation in which no single political party or pre-existing coalition (also known as an alliance or bloc) has an absolute majority of legisl ...
as, with the support of the
Labrador Party The Labrador Party (or New Labrador Party) was the name of two political parties in Newfoundland advocating the interests of the region of Labrador, Canada. New Labrador Party (1969–1975)
The party was founded in 1969, by Tom Burgess, a disaffe ...
'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.
Results
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Candidates
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!colspan="3" style="text-align:center;", Popular vote
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1966
Events January
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Frank Moores
Frank Duff Moores (February 18, 1933 – July 10, 2005) served as the second premier of Newfoundland. He served as leader of the Progressive Conservatives from 1972 until his retirement in 1979. Moores was also a successful businessman in bo ...
, align="right", 42
, align="right", 3
, align="right", 21
, align="right", 18
, align="right", 120,655
, align="right", 51.34%
, align="right", 17.65
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Joey Smallwood
Joseph Roberts Smallwood (December 24, 1900 – December 17, 1991) was a Newfoundlander and Canadian politician. He was the main force who brought the Dominion of Newfoundland into Canadian Confederation in 1949, becoming the first premier of ...
, align="right", 42
, align="right", 39
, align="right", 20
, align="right", 19
, align="right", 104,523
, align="right", 44.48%
, align="right", 16.85
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Tom Burgess
, align="right", 3
, align="right", ''n/a''
, align="right", 1
, align="right", 1
, align="right", 5,595
, align="right", 2.38%
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, align="right", 17
, align="right", 0
, align="right", 0
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, align="right", 3,718
, align="right", 1.58%
, align="right", 0.24
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Independent Liberal
Independent Liberal is a description allowed in politics to denote party affiliation. It is used to designate a politician as a liberal, yet independent of the official Liberal Party of a country. Those parties were the Liberal Party of Canada, ...
, align="right", 3
, align="right", 0
, align="right", 0
, align="right",
, align="right", 407
, align="right", 0.17%
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Independent
Independent or Independents may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups
* Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s
* Independ ...
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, align="right", 109
, align="right", 0.05%
, align="right", 2.33
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, style="text-align:right;", 108
, style="text-align:right;", 42
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, style="text-align:right;", 235,007
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General Election Returns
, ''Elections Newfoundland and Labrador'', accessed 2013-11-04
Notes
References
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Elections in Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland
Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...
1971 in Newfoundland and Labrador
October 1971 events in Canada
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