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.Former Newfoundland premier Frank Moores dies. CBC News, June 11, 2005
Results
|- style="background:#ccc;" ! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|Political party ! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|Party leader !rowspan="2"|Candidates ! colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|MHAs !colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|Popular vote |- style="background:#cccc;" | style="text-align:center;"|1966 | style="text-align:center;"|1971 | style="text-align:center;"|± | style="text-align:center;"|# | style="text-align:center;"|% | style="text-align:center;"|± (pp)
|align=left|Frank Moores |align="right"|42 |align="right"|3 |align="right"|21 |align="right"|18 |align="right"|120,655 |align="right"|51.34% |align="right"|17.65
|align=left|Joey Smallwood |align="right"|42 |align="right"|39 |align="right"|20 |align="right"|19 |align="right"|104,523 |align="right"|44.48% |align="right"|16.85
|align=left|Tom Burgess |align="right"|3 |align="right"|n/a |align="right"|1 |align="right"|1 |align="right"|5,595 |align="right"|2.38% |align="right"|n/a
|align=left|John Connors |align="right"|17 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|0 |align="right"| |align="right"|3,718 |align="right"|1.58% |align="right"|0.24
|colspan="2" align=left|Independent Liberal |align="right"|3 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|0 |align="right"| |align="right"|407 |align="right"|0.17% |align="right"|n/a
|colspan="2" align="left"|Independent |align="right"|1 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|0 |align="right"| |align="right"|109 |align="right"|0.05% |align="right"|2.33 |- style="background:#EAECF0;" | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"|Total | style="text-align:right;"|108 | style="text-align:right;"|42 | style="text-align:right;"|42 | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"|235,007 | style="text-align:right;"|100% | style="text-align:right;"|
Results by district
Names in boldface type represent party leaders. † indicates that the incumbent did not run again. ‡ indicates that the incumbent ran in a different district.
St. John's
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's Centre85.76% turnout | |Leonard Levitz1,59228.95% || |Anthony Murphy3,70867.43% | |Graham Kelly901.64% | |David Owens (Independent)1091.98% || |Anthony Murphy |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's East85.91% turnout | |Brendan Kelly1,27030.19% || |William Marshall2,93669.81%
|William Marshall |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's East Extern85.58% turnout | |Howard Young3,48729.02% || |Tom Hickey7,95466.19% | |Walter Noel5764.79%
|Tom Hickey |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's North90.52% turnout | |Gordon Lidstone5,31334.77% || |John Carter9,96665.23%
|Nathaniel Noel† |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's South83.74% turnout | |Francis Galgay3,08234.42% || |Hugh Shea5,71263.79% | |Roy Taylor1601.79%
|John Nolan‡(ran in Ferryland) |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's West85.05% turnout | |Alma Badcock2,84430.85% || |John Crosbie6,37469.15%
|John Crosbie
Conception Bay
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Bay de Verde77.66% turnout || |William Saunders1,30750.40% | |Brendan Howard1,28649.60%
|William Saunders |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Bell Island87.28% turnout || |Steve Neary1,56765.65% | |Bern Fitzpatrick82034.35%
|Steve Neary |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Carbonear88.91% turnout | |George Clarke1,76549.06% || |Augustus Rowe1,83350.94%
|George Clarke |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Harbour Grace84.93% turnout || |Hubert Kitchen2,40952.91% | |Harold Gosse1,87541.18% | |Hubert Badcock (Independent Liberal)2695.91% || |Alec Moores† |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke rowspan=2|Harbour Main83.28% turnout | |John Mahoney3,60522.95% || |Gordon Dawe4,41728.12% |rowspan=2| |rowspan=2|Darrell Cole (NDP)1510.96% || |Philip Lewis†
|Ralph Fagan3,45221.97% || |William Doody4,08426.00% || |John Mahoney |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Port de Grave83.29% turnout || |James Hussey2,40255.90% | |Herbert Bowering1,79341.73% | |Edgar Russell (NDP)1022.37% || |Eric Dawe†
Avalon Peninsula
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Ferryland86.14% turnout | |John Nolan1,87448.62% || |Thomas Doyle1,98051.38% || |Aidan Maloney† |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Placentia East84.91% turnout || |Joey Smallwood2,85258.61% | |William Patterson2,01441.39% || |Alain Frecker† |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. Mary's88.03% turnout | |Michael Maher1,13848.34% || |Gerry Ottenheimer1,21651.66% || |James M. McGrath† |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Trinity South78.38% turnout || |Rupert Bartlett3,42461.62% | |George Baker2,26740.80% || |Uriah Strickland‡(ran in Trinity North)
Eastern Newfoundland
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Bonavista North81.84% turnout || |Paul Thoms3,32453.89% | |Robert Wells2,84446.11%
|Beaton Abbott† |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Bonavista South74.58% turnout || |Rossy Barbour3,05053.63% | |Jim Morgan2,50043.96% | |Gerald Hayley1372.41% || |Rossy Barbour |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Fogo77.04% turnout || |Earl Winsor2,70358.10% | |Frederick Jesperson1,94941.90%
|Eric Jones† |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Trinity North77.70% turnout || |Uriah Strickland3,42456.87% | |Eric Martin2,59743.13%
|Maxwell Lane†
Central Newfoundland
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Gander89.64% turnout | |Douglas Sheppard2,86135.26% || |Harold Collins5,03062.00% | |Clarence Lingard2222.74%
|Harold Collins |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Grand Falls85.27% turnout | |Frederick W. Rowe3,60142.91% || |Aubrey Senior3,98747.51% | |John Connors8049.58%
|Frederick W. Rowe |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Green Bay81.22% turnout || |Harold Starkes2,68756.38% | |Aubrey Rolfe1,83538.50% | |Harold Card2445.12%
|William Smallwood† |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lewisporte83.24% turnout | |John Whalen2,36445.92% || |James Russell2,61450.78% | |Walwin Blackmore1703.30%
|Harold Starkes‡(ran in Green Bay) |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Twillingate81.76% turnout || |William Adams2,15558.69% | |John Loveridge1,48740.50% | |Roderick Woolridge300.82%
|Leslie Curtis† |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|White Bay South88.85% turnout || |Bill Rowe2,47761.42% | |William Eaton1,43335.53% | |Martin Saunders731.81% | |Ronald Budgell (Independent Liberal)501.24% || |Bill Rowe
Southern Newfoundland
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Burgeo-La Poile79.85% turnout | |Walter Hodder2,67447.66% || |Allan Evans2,76249.22% | |Andrew Wells (NDP)1753.12% || |Walter Hodder |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Burin93.11% turnout || |Alex Hickman3,65554.51% | |Don Hollett3,05045.49%
|Alex Hickman |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Fortune Bay78.93% turnout | |H.R.V. Earle1,20645.29% || |Augustus Oldford1,45754.71%
|H.R.V. Earle |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Hermitage82.89% turnout || |Harold Piercey1,85052.20% | |Roy Cheeseman1,58544.72% | |Leo Coffey (NDP)1093.08% || |Abel Wornell† |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Placentia West85.30% turnout || |Patrick Canning2,38764.25% | |Lawrence Hudson1,24033.38% | |Thomas Fitzpatrick (Independent Liberal)882.37% || |Patrick Canning
Western Newfoundland
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Humber East89.66% turnout | |George Warren2,99833.34% || |Tom Farrell5,65462.87% | |Calvin Hillyard3413.79% || |Clyde Wells† |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Humber West90.95% turnout | |Noel Murphy3,27036.36% || |Frank Moores5,95966.26% | |James Walsh2342.60% || |Joey Smallwood‡(ran in Placentia East) |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Port au Port93.50% turnout | |William Callahan2,73040.22% || |Frederick Stagg4,05759.78%
|William Callahan |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. Barbe North83.34% turnout || |James Chalker1,35466.57% | |Boyd Hiscock68033.43%
|James Chalker |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. Barbe South87.95% turnout | |Trevor Bennett1,74849.89% || |Edward Maynard1,75650.11%
|Gerald Myrden† |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. George's89.83% turnout | |Jeremiah Horan1,77743.27% || |Alexander Dunphy2,32756.66%
|Vacant |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|White Bay North85.57% turnout || |Edward Roberts3,14081.36% | |Gerald Moore71918.63%
|Edward Roberts
Labrador
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Labrador North || |Melvin Woodward1,85844.64% | |Arthur Hale70917.04% | |Herbert Brett1,54537.12%
|Earl Winsor‡(ran in Fogo) |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Labrador South84.32% turnout || |Joe Harvey89047.52% | |Edward Kean1769.40% | |Michael Martin80743.09%
|Gerald Hill† |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Labrador West | |Roy Legge1,44522.41% | |Peter Walsh1,65925.73% || |Tom Burgess3,24350.30% | |Michael Neville1001.55% || |Tom Burgess
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