The Citizens' Party () was a political party in

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

History

The party was established on 25 February 1959 by

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. Seah had been elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1955 elections as a member of the

Labour Front The Labour Front is a defunct political party in Singapore that operated from 1955 to 1960. History The Labour Front was founded to contest the 1955 legislative elections by David Saul Marshall, Singapore's first chief minister and Lim Yew Hoc ...

, but had left the party to sit as an independent.Citizens' Party
Singapore Elections In the May 1959 elections the party nominated five candidates for the 51 seats in the Assembly. However, it received only 0.6% of the vote and failed to win a seat. The party subsequently merged into the Workers' Party on 13 September 1960.

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