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1957 Singapore City Council election

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The 1957 Singapore City Council elections was the first time that all appointed seats were scrapped, and all seats were opened for direct popular voting. Nomination day was on 18 November 1957, with voting held on 21 December in the same year.

1957 Singapore City Council election
← 1953 21 December 1957 1958 →
All 32 seats to the City Council
17 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Lee Kuan Yew Felice Leon-Soh Lim Yew Hock
Party PAP LSP LF
Leader's seat Did not contest Did not contest Did not contest
Seats won 13 7 4
Seat change New New New
Popular vote 49,500 56,204 25,711
Percentage 30.61% 34.76% 15.90%
Elected Mayor

Ong Eng Guan
PAP

A total of 32 seats were contested. Also up for contention, was the new office of Mayor of Singapore, which would be awarded to the leader of the political party with the majority of seats won.

Results

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PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Liberal Socialist Party56,20434.767New
People's Action Party49,50030.6113New
Labour Front25,71115.904New
Workers' Party11,8967.364New
United Malays National Organisation7,8324.842+2
Independents10,5606.532–1
Total161,703100.0032+14
Valid votes161,70397.76
Invalid/blank votes3,7012.24
Total votes165,404100.00
Registered voters/turnout504,29132.80
Source: Singapore Elections[usurped]

By constituency

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Under First-past-the-post voting, six candidates (out of the 14 multi-cornered contests) are elected to the council with under a simple majority (50%) of the valid votes cast. The results for Sepoy Lines came with then a record of the narrowest election margin to date at about 0.4%, which would later be surpassed by the River Valley Constituency's 0.05% margin in the 1959 Singaporean general election, two years later. PAP's Chan Choy Siong in Kreta Ayer won the best margin in the election with 86.8% of the votes cast, while the worst-performing candidate for the election was T. R. Fernandez, who garnered 258 votes, 4.2% of the valid votes cast in Delta. Only four candidates had garnered under 12.5% of their vote share and had their $250 election deposit forfeited.

Constituency Electorate Party Candidate Votes %
Aljunied 15,033 Liberal Socialist Party Wee Swee Hong 1,855 46.7
Labour Front Sim Swee Seng 1,344 33.8
Independent Tan Jin Hong 777 19.5
Anson 15,637 People's Action Party John Mammen 2,764 53.9
Liberal Socialist Party Sundarajulu Lakshmana Perumal 2,363 46.1
Bras Basah 16,274 People's Action Party Sze Yih Hwa 3,345 64.7
Liberal Socialist Party Hwang Cheng Peng 1,826 35.3
Bukit Merah 12,768 Independent Govindasamy Gopal 1,465 38.6
Liberal Socialist Party Pang Tong Khiam 1,253 33.0
Labour Front Ahmad bin Ismail 1,079 28.4
Cairnhill 14,148 Workers' Party O. Subramaniam Rengasamy 1,406 34.4
Liberal Socialist Party Tan Sim Hong 1,373 33.6
Labour Front P. Ramasamy 1,313 32.1
Crawford 15,547 People's Action Party Baharuddin bin Mohamed Ariff 4,355 67.0
Liberal Socialist Party Lee Thiam Chuan 1,220 18.8
Independent Neo Tai Kim 923 14.2
Delta 16,916 Workers' Party John Cruz Corera 3,391 54.9
Liberal Socialist Party Peck Boon Kang 1,273 20.6
Labour Front Tan Jin Hong 1,251 20.3
Independent T. R. Fernandez 258 4.2
Farrer Park 13,826 Independent Karuppiah Nalliah 1,335 29.8
Liberal Socialist Party Vetrivelu Rengaswamy 1,141 25.5
Labour Front Mariappan Verappan 1,074 24.0
Independent Soo-Tho Siu Hee 933 20.8
Geylang East 17,966 People's Action Party Kum Teng Hock 3,154 54.0
Liberal Socialist Party Lee Kip Hiang 2,051 35.1
Independent Ng Cheng Chwee 640 10.9
Geylang West 18,112 People's Action Party Peter Lau Por Tuck 3,703 79.1
Liberal Socialist Party Teo Koh Bee 979 20.9
Havelock 18,422 Labour Front Lee Hwee Yiow 2,979 54.5
Liberal Socialist Party Ang Khye Chia 2,487 45.5
Hong Lim 13,127 People's Action Party Ong Eng Guan 3,918 82.9
Liberal Socialist Party Lee Kok Liang 810 17.1
Jalan Besar 13,416 People's Action Party Chan Chee Seng 2,430 52.9
Liberal Socialist Party Lee Chee Seng 1,660 36.2
Workers' Party Cheong Min Chee 501 10.9
Kallang 14,302 Workers' Party Chiang Yueh Thong 2,704 41.5
Liberal Socialist Party Tan Hai Tong 1,831 28.1
Labour Front Henry Leong 1,484 22.8
Independent Lau Liat Meng 499 7.7
Kampong Glam 15,609 People's Action Party Hoe Puay Choo 3,615 60.9
Liberal Socialist Party Lam Chock Chuan 1,203 20.3
Independent Daud bin Mohamed Yunos 1,119 18.8
Kampong Kapor 19,334 People's Action Party Wee Toon Boon 3,860 51.8
Liberal Socialist Party Ng Teik Sim 1,861 25.0
Independent Sim Beng Seng 1,735 23.3
Kreta Ayer 16,950 People's Action Party Chan Choy Siong 3,034 86.8
Liberal Socialist Party Lee Ho Kee 460 13.2
Moulmein 12,020 Liberal Socialist Party Lim Choo Sye 1,890 57.0
Labour Front Lam Hock Chye 1,428 43.0
Mountbatten 13,728 Liberal Socialist Party Felice Leon-Soh 1,818 55.9
Labour Front Saul Hugh Zakoo 1,436 44.1
Pasir Panjang 10,274 Liberal Socialist Party Ong Say Yeo 2,358 58.7
Labour Front Ahmad bin Mohamed Yatim 1,660 41.3
Queenstown 11,429 Labour Front Tang Peng Yeu 2,796 75.0
Liberal Socialist Party Leong Poh Seng 934 25.0
River Valley 14,865 Labour Front Ho Kok Hoe 2,164 52.0
Liberal Socialist Party Wong Peng Tuck 1,996 48.0
Rochore 16,333 People's Action Party Lin You Eng 4,258 63.9
Liberal Socialist Party Ong Lip Hua 1,527 22.9
Independent Tang Beng Cheong 876 13.2
Sepoy Lines 16,281 Liberal Socialist Party Manickavasagar Subramaniam 2,904 50.2
People's Action Party Kang Meng Kim 2,880 49.8
Stamford 17,860 Labour Front George Benjamin Armstrong 1,470 53.9
Liberal Socialist Party Gopal Krishnan Gosain 1,257 46.1
Tanglin 18,775 United Malays National Organisation Mohamed Shariff bin Dollah 1,950 42.5
Liberal Socialist Party Syed Omar bin Abdulrahman Alsagoff 1,547 33.7
Labour Front Lim Siew Chuan 1,091 23.8
Tanjong Pagar 14,721 People's Action Party Ong Pang Boon 3,354 71.9
Liberal Socialist Party Lim Siew Lay 1,311 28.1
Telok Ayer 24,412 Workers' Party Wang Tsun Hao 3,894 55.6
Liberal Socialist Party Chua Keng Eng 2,081 29.7
Labour Front Yap Tean Hock 1,034 14.8
Telok Blangah 18,476 United Malays National Organisation Syed Ali bin Zedha Alsagoff 3,432 51.3
Liberal Socialist Party Chua Bock Kwee 3,262 48.7
Tiong Bahru 13,863 Liberal Socialist Party Lee Bah Chee 2,285 52.0
Labour Front Lim Huan Seng 2,108 14.8
Toa Payoh 18,416 People's Action Party Wong Soon Fong 4,830 62.9
Liberal Socialist Party Khoo Siaw Hua 2,846 37.1
Ulu Pandan 15,451 Liberal Socialist Party Chua Kim Kee 2,542 50.9
United Malays National Organisation Ibrahim bin Othman 2,450 49.1
Source: Singapore Elections[usurped]
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