1957 Singapore City Council election

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1957 Singapore City Council election
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← 1953 21 December 1957 1958 →
All 32 seats to the City Council
17 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
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Leader Lee Kuan Yew Felice Leon-Soh Lim Yew Hock
Party PAP LSP LF
Leader's seat Not Contesting Not Contesting Not Contesting
Seats won 13 7 4
Seat change Increase13 Decrease1 Decrease1
Popular vote 49,500 56,204 25,711
Percentage 30.6% 34.8% 15.9%
Elected Mayor

Ong Eng Guan
PAP

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.

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[]

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
People's Action Party49,50030.6113New
Liberal Socialist Party56,20434.767–1
Labour Front25,71115.904–1
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

By constituency[]

Constituency Electorate Party Candidate Votes %
Aljunied 15,033 Liberal Socialist Party 1,855 46.7
Labour Front 1,344 33.8
Independent 777 19.5
Anson 15,637 People's Action Party 2,764 53.9
Liberal Socialist Party 2,363 46.1
Bras Basah 16,274 People's Action Party 3,345 64.7
Liberal Socialist Party 1,826 35.3
Bukit Merah 12,768 Independent 1,465 38.6
Liberal Socialist Party 1,253 33.0
Labour Front Ahmad bin Ismail 1,079 28.4
Cairnhill 14,148 Workers' Party 1,406 34.4
Liberal Socialist Party 1,373 33.6
Labour Front P. Ramasamy 1,313 32.1
Crawford 15,547 People's Action Party 4,355 67.0
Liberal Socialist Party 1,220 18.8
Independent 923 14.2
Delta 16,916 Workers' Party 3,391 54.9
Liberal Socialist Party 1,273 20.6
Labour Front 1,251 20.3
Independent 258 4.2
Farrer Park 13,826 Independent 1,335 29.8
Liberal Socialist Party 1,141 25.5
Labour Front 1,074 24.0
Independent 933 20.8
Geylang East 17,966 People's Action Party 3,154 54.0
Liberal Socialist Party 2,051 35.1
Independent 640 10.9
Geylang West 18,112 People's Action Party 3,703 79.1
Liberal Socialist Party 979 20.9
Havelock 18,422 Labour Front 2,979 54.5
Liberal Socialist Party 2,487 45.5
Hong Lim 13,127 People's Action Party Ong Eng Guan 3,918 82.9
Liberal Socialist Party 810 17.1
Jalan Besar 13,416 People's Action Party 2,430 52.9
Liberal Socialist Party 1,660 36.2
Workers' Party 501 10.9
Kallang 14,302 Workers' Party 2,704 41.5
Liberal Socialist Party 1,831 28.1
Labour Front 1,484 22.8
Independent 499 7.7
Kampong Glam 15,609 People's Action Party 3,615 60.9
Liberal Socialist Party 1,203 20.3
Independent 1,119 18.8
Kampong Kapor 19,334 People's Action Party 3,860 51.8
Liberal Socialist Party 1,861 25.0
Independent 1,735 23.3
Kreta Ayer 16,950 People's Action Party Chan Choy Siong 3,034 86.8
Liberal Socialist Party 460 13.2
Moulmein 12,020 Liberal Socialist Party 1,890 57.0
Labour Front 1,428 43.0
Mountbatten 13,728 Liberal Socialist Party 1,818 55.9
Labour Front 1,436 44.1
Pasir Panjang 10,274 Liberal Socialist Party 2,358 58.7
Labour Front 1,660 41.3
Queenstown 11,429 Labour Front 2,796 75.0
Liberal Socialist Party 934 25.0
River Valley 14,865 Labour Front 2,164 52.0
Liberal Socialist Party 1,996 48.0
Rochore 16,333 People's Action Party 4,258 63.9
Liberal Socialist Party 1,527 22.9
Independent 876 13.2
Sepoy Lines 16,281 Liberal Socialist Party 2,904 50.2
People's Action Party 2,880 49.8
Stamford 17,860 Labour Front 1,470 53.9
Liberal Socialist Party 1,257 46.1
Tanglin 18,775 United Malays National Organisation 1,950 42.5
Liberal Socialist Party 1,547 33.7
Labour Front 1,091 23.8
Tanjong Pagar 14,721 People's Action Party Ong Pang Boon 3,354 71.9
Liberal Socialist Party 1,311 28.1
Telok Ayer 24,412 Workers' Party 3,894 55.6
Liberal Socialist Party 2,081 29.7
Labour Front 1,034 14.8
Telok Blangah 18,476 United Malays National Organisation 3,432 51.3
Liberal Socialist Party 3,262 48.7
Tiong Bahru 13,863 Liberal Socialist Party 2,285 52.0
Labour Front 2,108 14.8
Toa Payoh 18,416 People's Action Party 4,830 62.9
Liberal Socialist Party 2,846 37.1
Ulu Pandan 15,451 Liberal Socialist Party 2,542 50.9
United Malays National Organisation 2,450 49.1
Source: Singapore Elections

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