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1971 Syrian presidential election

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Field	Value
country	Ba'athist Syria
flag_year	1963
type	presidential
previous_election	1961 Syrian presidential election
previous_year	1961
election_date
next_election	1978 Syrian presidential election
next_year	1978
image1	General Hafez al-Assad (1930-2000), the new president of Syria in November 1970.png
nominee1	Hafez al-Assad
party1	Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region
popular_vote1	1,919,609
percentage1	99.20%
title	President
before_election	Ahmad al-Khatib
before_party	Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region
posttitle	Elected President
after_election	Hafez al-Assad
after_party	Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region
map	[[File:1971, 1978, 1985, 1991, 1999, 2000, and 2007 Syrian presidential election results by Governorate.svg	250px]]
map_caption	Results by governorate
Assad:
Election not held
map2_image	File:1971 Presidential election in Syria.jpg
map2_caption	Another variant of the presidential election 1971 results, which includes "against" and "invalid” votes.
turnout	95.30%

Assad: ** Election not held**

Presidential elections were held in Syria on 12 March 1971. There was only one candidate, Hafez al-Assad, with voters asked to approve or reject his candidacy. A reported 99% of voters voted in favour, with a turnout of 95%.

These were the first elections to ever take place in Ba'athist Syria, which was established in 1963 following the 1963 coup that brought the Ba'ath Party to power. The elections marked the beginning of the Assad dynasty, who seized power in November 1970; the Ba'ath Party and Assad family would rule Syria for the next six decades until the regime was overthrown by anti-Assad rebels in 2024.

Results

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]], Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) ''Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I'', p229 {{ISBN. 0-19-924958-X

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