Singaporean by-elections, 1957

By election was held on 29 June 1957 while the nomination day occurred on 18 May 1957 in Cairnhill and Tanjong Pagar was due to David Marshall from Labor Front's resignation as Chief Minister on 7 June 1956 after his initiated talks with British authorities for self-governance broke down. He had also challenged opposition leader Lee Kuan Yew from the People's Action Party to resign and recontest their respective constituencies as well which Lee did accept and follow the move, but to see David Marshall's retirement of politics on a fear of speculations of bloodly street protests and lost the seat to a new party Liberal Socialist Party while Lee Kuan Yew had retained his seat in Tanjong Pagar.

Election Deposit

The election deposit was stated at $500.

Results

Cairnhill

By-election 1957: Cairnhill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LSP	Soh Ghee Soon	2,342	40.3	N/A
	Independent	Goh Kong Beng	1,281	22.0	N/A
	LF	Keng Ban Ee	1,118	19.2	-28.4
	Malay Union	Tengku Muda Muhamed bin Mahmud	983	16.9	N/A
	Independent	Mirza Abdul Majid	91	1.6	N/A
Majority			1,061	18.3	N/A
Turnout			5,889	39.8	-14.0
	LSP gain from LF		Swing	N/A

Note 1: As Mirza Abdul Majid had failed to secure 12.5% of the votes, he had his election deposit forfeited.

Note 2: In 1957, Singapore Malay Union (SMU) was expelled by its alliance partners consisted of UMNO and MCA for fielding a candidate in this by-election which was the reason for the elections department of Singapore to view Tengku Muda as another independent candidate.

Tanjong Pagar

By-election 1957: Tanjong Pagar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Lee Kuan Yew	4,707	68.1	-10.2
	LSP	Chong Wei Ling	1,315	19.0	N/A
	Independent	Koh Choon Hong	887	12.8	N/A
Majority			3,392	49.1	-17.4
Turnout			6,985	47.3	-10.3
	PAP hold		Swing	N/A

References

Elections and referendums in Singapore

General elections	1948 1951 1955 1959 1963 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1991 1997 2001 2006 2011 2015 Next

By-elections	1948 1952 1957 1961 1965 1966 1967 1970 1977 1979 1981 1992 2012 2013

Presidential elections	1993 1999‡ 2005‡ 2011 next

Local elections	1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1949 (Apr) 1949 (Dec) 1950 1951 1952 1953 1957

Referendums	1962

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