Re-election of Nguyễn Văn Thiệu

Date: October 2, 1971 • Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam

Nguyễn Văn Thiệu was re-elected unopposed as President of South Vietnam.

Nguyễn Văn Thiệu was a South Vietnamese military officer and politician who was the president of South Vietnam from 1967 to 1975. He was a general in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces (RVNAF), became head of a military junta in 1965, and then president after winning a rigged election in 1967. He headed the government of South Vietnam until he resigned and left the nation and relocated to Taipei a few days before the fall of Saigon and the ultimate North Vietnamese victory.