Elections to the House of Representatives were held in South Vietnam on 29 August 1971.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p331 Only a few candidates were affiliated with political parties.Nohlen et al., p337 They were the final elections held in South Vietnam, as its government was overthrown by the North in 1975 and unified with the North in 1976.
Electoral system In order to elect members of the House of Representatives, each province and city acted as an electoral district, except the city of Saigon, which was divided into three districts, and the province of Gia Định, which was divided into two districts. Voters had as many votes as there were seats to be filled. In single-member districts, this made the electoral system single-member plurality: in districts where there were more than one seat to be filled, this became the multiple non-transferable vote system.
Results Voter turnout was 79%, with 5,567,446 of the 7,085,943 registered voters voting.Nohlen et al., p332
Elected members by province ProvinceCandidateVotes%Saigon (District 1)Hồ Ngọc Cừ29,44420.728,79720.2Nguyễn Hữu Chung23,37016.4Nguyễn Trọng Nho17,63912.4Trần Văn Tuyên17,23212.1Saigon (District 2)Trương Vi Trí32,93228.7Huỳnh Ngọc Anh21,03118.3Gip A Sáng19,92317.3Diệp Văn Hưng18,73916.3Saigon (District 3)Hồ Văn Minh41,97730.2Võ Văn Phát35,52825.631,85822.9Phan Công Phú20,33114.6Source: Public Administration Bulletin Vietnam
As voters in districts that elected more than one member had more than one vote, percentages may not add up to 100%.
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