| Election Name: | 1971 Newfoundland general election |
| Country: | Newfoundland and Labrador |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Election Date: | October 28, 1971 |
| Previous Election: | 1966 Newfoundland general election |
| Previous Year: | 1966 |
| Next Election: | 1972 Newfoundland general election |
| Next Year: | 1972 |
| Seats For Election: | 42 seats to the 35th General Assembly of Newfoundland |
| Majority Seats: | 22 |
| Image1: | PC |
| Leader1: | Frank Moores |
| Leader Since1: | 1970 |
| Leaders Seat1: | Humber West |
| Last Election1: | 3 seats, 33.69% |
| Seats1: | 21 |
| Seat Change1: | 18 |
| Popular Vote1: | 120,655 |
| Percentage1: | 51.34% |
| Swing1: | 17.65pp |
| Leader2: | Joey Smallwood |
| Leader Since2: | 1949 |
| Leaders Seat2: | Placentia East |
| Last Election2: | 39 seats, 61.33% |
| Seats2: | 20 |
| Seat Change2: | 19 |
| Popular Vote2: | 104,523 |
| Percentage2: | 44.48% |
| Swing2: | 16.85pp |
| Image3: | NLP |
| Party3: | New Labrador |
| Leader3: | Tom Burgess |
| Leader Since3: | 1969 |
| Leaders Seat3: | Labrador West |
| Last Election3: | New party |
| Seats3: | 1 |
| Seat Change3: | 1 |
| Popular Vote3: | 5,595 |
| Percentage3: | 2.38% |
| Swing3: | n/a |
| Premier | |
| Before Election: | Joey Smallwood |
| Posttitle: | Premier after election |
| After Election: | Joey Smallwood |
| Ongoing: | No |
| Flag Year: | 1952 |
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]
|- 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;"||}[2]