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Turnout | 33.2 ( 46.9 pp) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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General elections were held in Trinidad and Tobago on 24 May 1971.[1] The result was a victory for the People's National Movement, which won all 36 seats. Due to a boycott by all major opposition parties protesting at fraud related to the voting machines used in previous elections,[2] voter turnout was just 33.2%.[3]