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National Council elections were held in the Czech part of Czechoslovakia on 26 and 27 November 1971. They were the first direct elections after the creation of the Czech National Council, whose first members were co-opted in 1968 by the members of National Assembly, elected in 1964.
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| Party or alliance | Votes | % | Seats | |||
| National Front | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia | 132 | ||||
| Czechoslovak People's Party | 15 | |||||
| Czechoslovak Socialist Party | 12 | |||||
| Independents | 41 | |||||
| Total | 200 | |||||
| Total votes | 7,207,961 | – | ||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 7,250,648 | 99.41 | ||||
| Source: Databáze poslanců, [1] CZSO | ||||||
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