General elections were held in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on 7 April 1972.
[1] The result was a tie between the People's Political Party and the Saint Vincent Labour Party, which both won six seats.
Despite being a former member of the SVLP (which had received a majority of the public vote), the sole independent MP James Fitz-Allen Mitchell formed a government with the PPP.
Voter turnout was 75.6%.
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