The Labour 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 23 March 1948 by several trade unionists.Labour Party
Singapore elections Its first electoral test was the April 1949 local elections, in which it received 13% of the vote, winning one of the 18 seats. In the next local elections in December the party's vote share increased to 43%, although it only won two of the six seats. The party won one seat in the 1950 elections. The party contested the 1951 general elections, receiving 30% of the vote and winning two of the nine elected seats. In the

local elections In many parts of the world, local elections take place to select office-holders in local government, such as mayors and councillors. Elections to positions within a city or town are often known as "municipal elections". Their form and conduct vary ...

later in the year, the party won three seats. However, the party saw several splits in the early 1950s, leading to the formation 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 ...

. It won only one seat in the 1952 local elections and none in the

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. By the 1955 general elections the party had lost both its MPs,Legislative Assembly general election 1955: Seats
Singapore Elections and received less than 1% of the vote, failing to win a seat. The party did not contest the 1959 general elections, and after the Societies Ordinance came into force in 1960, it failed to re-register.

Election results

Legislative elections

Municipal elections

References

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