1971 Newfoundland general election

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42 seats to the 35th General Assembly of Newfoundland
22 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party
	PC		NLP
Leader	Frank Moores	Joey Smallwood	Tom Burgess
Party	Progressive Conservative	Liberal	New Labrador
Leader since	1970	1949	1969
Leader's seat	Humber West [a]	Placentia East [b]	Labrador West
Last election	3 seats, 33.69%	39 seats, 61.33%	New party
Seats won	21	20	1
Seat change	Increase18	Decrease19	Increase1
Popular vote	120,655	104,523	5,595
Percentage	51.34%	44.48%	2.38%
Swing	Increase17.65pp	Decrease16.85pp	n/a

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The 1971 Newfoundland general election was held on 28 October 1971 to elect members of the 35th General Assembly of Newfoundland. 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]

Summary of the 1971 Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly election results

Political party		Party leader	Candidates	MHAs			Popular vote
				1966	1971	±	#	%	± (pp)
Progressive Conservative	Frank Moores	42	3	21	Increase18	120,655	51.34%	Increase17.65
Liberal	Joey Smallwood	42	39	20	Decrease19	104,523	44.48%	Decrease16.85
Labrador	Tom Burgess	3	n/a	1	Increase1	5,595	2.38%	n/a
New Democratic	John Connors	17	0	0	Steady	3,718	1.58%	Decrease0.24
	Independent Liberal		3	0	0	Steady	407	0.17%	n/a
	Independent		1	0	0	Steady	109	0.05%	Decrease2.33
Total			108	42	42	235,007	100%

^[2]

• "Seat Count Results in Newfoundland & Labrador Provincial Elections". Election Almanac. Election Almanac. Archived from the original on April 13, 2014. Retrieved April 9, 2014.