1951 Singaporean general election

1951 Singaporean general election

← 1948 8 March 1951 1955 →

9 of the 22 seats in the Legislative Council
Registered48,155
Turnout52.05% (Decrease 11.20pp)
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Tan Chye Cheng Lim Yew Hock
Party Progressive Labour
Last election 49.49%, 3 seats
Seats won 6 2
Seat change Increase 3 New
Popular vote 11,202 7,335
Percentage 45.37% 29.70%
Swing Decrease 4.12% New

Results by constituency

General elections were held in Singapore on 10 April 1951 to elect members to nine seats in the Legislative Council, up from six seats in the 1948 elections. A 32-day-long campaign period was scheduled, with nomination day on 8 March 1951. The result was a victory for the Progressive Party, which won six of the nine seats.[1]

Electoral system

The Legislative Council was increased from 22 to 25 members, with the number of elected seats increased from six to nine. Three seats were nominated by the three commercial organisations (the Singapore Chamber of Commerce, Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Indian Chamber of Commerce), whilst the British colonial government appointed the remaining 13 seats, which were given to the Governor, Colonial Secretary, Financial Secretary, Attorney-General, Solicitor-General, two Directors, two ex officio Commissioners and four non-officio ones. One of the four non-officio members, only one woman was appointed, war heroine Elizabeth Choy, who ran unsuccessfully in the 1950 Municipal Commission elections.

The British government approved the suggestion by political parties to create six constituencies within the city according to municipal districts, including Balestier (North), Keppel (South), Katong (East) and Tanglin (West), while the rural area was divided into three instead of two. The joint districts were scrapped. Voting was again not compulsory and the franchise restricted.

Campaign

The Progressive Party's main political opponent at the municipal level, the Labour Party, entered the legislative fray. Well-known Malay politician Mansoor bin Adabi, husband of Maria Bertha Hertogh (also known as Natra binte Maarof), the young Dutch woman whose parentage controversy sparked a racial riot in Singapore the previous year, planned to contest Bukit Timah under the PP banner but withdrew his nomination at the final minute for unknown reasons. The campaign manager for PP vice-chairman John Laycock was Lee Kuan Yew, a legal assistant in the former's law firm who would form the People's Action Party in 1954.

Out of 48,155 registered voters, only 52% voted. There had been boycott calls and the city was still suffering from the after-effects of the Maria Hertogh riots four months before the elections.

The elections saw the first electoral contest for the reserved seat for the Indian Chamber of Commerce.

Results

Voter turnout was significantly lower than in the previous elections of 1948, falling to 52.05%, 11 percentage points lower than the 1948 elections. Voter turnout was highest in Seletar at 69% while City saw the lowest voter turnout at just 44%, while three other constituencies also had turnouts lower than 50%, the first time in Singapore's electoral history that voter turnout had been below 50%.

Vilasini Menon became the first woman elected to the Legislative Council, winning the Seletar constituency as an independent. Progressive Party leader Tan Chye Cheng was the best performing candidate, receiving 80% of the vote in Tanglin while independent candidate Mizra Abdul Majid was the worst performing candidate by polling just 4% in City and being the only candidate to lose their $500 deposit. In absolute numbers, Labour Party leader Lim Yew Hock received the highest number of votes (2,369) in Keppel while Labour Party candidate Thomas Davies Richards of Tanglin was the worst performing candidate with just 351 votes.

In terms of vote margin, the Labour Party's candidate Caralapati Raghaviah Dasaratha Raj won with the narrowest margin of 6.56% while PP leader Tan Chye Cheng won with the biggest margin of 60.27%.

By winning six of the nine constituency seats, the Progressive Party became the first and only party to win a two-thirds majority prior to 1959 and the only party other than the People's Action Party to do so.

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Progressive Party11,20245.376+3
Labour Party7,33529.702New
Independents6,15624.931–2
Total24,693100.009+3
Valid votes24,69398.52
Invalid/blank votes3721.48
Total votes25,065100.00
Registered voters/turnout48,15552.05
Source: Singapore Elections[usurped]

By constituency

Constituency Electorate Party Candidate Votes %
Balestier 5,246 Progressive Party Thio Chan Bee 1,560 58.34
Labour Party Peter Massillamany Williams 593 22.18
Independent Jagatheesan Kalimuthu 521 19.48
Bukit Timah 3,850 Progressive Party Hollupatherage James Caldera Kulasingha 1,311 57.15
Labour Party Valiya Purayil Abdullah 983 42.85
Changi 3,623 Progressive Party Charles Joseph Pemberton Paglar 1,486 72.52
Labour Party Syed Mohamed Abdul Hameed Chisty 563 27.48
City 5,611 Progressive Party Nazir Ahmad Mallal 1,308 53.85
Independent Balwant Singh Bajaj 1,025 42.20
Independent Mirza Abdul Majid 96 3.95
Katong 6,669 Progressive Party John Laycock 2,075 64.20'
Independent Goh Hood Kiat 1,157 35.80
Keppel 6,683 Labour Party Lim Yew Hock 2,369 67.96
Progressive Party Arumugam Ponnu Rajah 1,117 32.04
Rochore 7,493 Labour Party Caralapati Raghaviah Dasaratha Raj 1,433 43.12
Independent Mohamed Javad Namazie 1,215 36.56
Independent Pandarapillai Thillai Nathan 675 20.32
Seletar 5,025 Independent Vilasini Menon 1,467 42.66
Labour Party Gopalan Nair Nanupillai 1,043 30.33
Progressive Party V. Vayloo Pakirisamy 929 27.01
Tanglin 3,955 Progressive Party Tan Chye Cheng 1,416 80.14
Labour Party Thomas Davies Richards 351 19.86
Singapore Chamber of Commerce Ewen MacGregor Field Fergusson Uncontested
Chinese Chamber of Commerce Tan Chin Tuan Uncontested
Indian Chamber of Commerce 248 Rajabali Jumabhoy 147 62.03
Hardial Singh 90 37.97
Source: Singapore Elections[usurped]

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