The United People's Party (

abbreviation An abbreviation () is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method including shortening (linguistics), shortening, contraction (grammar), contraction, initialism (which includes acronym), or crasis. An abbreviation may be a shortened for ...

: UPP) was a political party in Singapore, formed by former

People's Action Party The People's Action Party (PAP) is a major Conservatism, conservative political party in Singapore and is the governing contemporary political party represented in the Parliament of Singapore, followed by the opposition Workers' Party of Singap ...

(PAP) leader

Ong Eng Guan Ong Eng Guan (; 1925–2008) was a Singaporean politician who served as Ministry of National Development (Singapore), Minister for National Development between 1959 and 1960. An anti-communist, Ong was a Chinese-educated orator who became popular ...

. UPP was registered on 14 July 1961. The party fielded 46 candidates to contest the 51 seats in the legislative assembly in the 1963 general election. Ong won the Hong Lim seat with 44.5% majority votes, that was lower than the over 70% he received during the 1959 election under the PAP, and 1961 election as an independent candidate. Although UPP won one seat and became the opposition, the party's existence was in doubt as Singapore was ousted from the Malaysian federation by the Malaysian Prime Minister

Tunku Abdul Rahman Tunku Abdul Rahman (8 February 19036 December 1990), commonly referred to as Tunku, was a Malaysian statesman who served as prime minister of Malaysia from 1957 to 1970. He previously served as the only chief minister of Federation of Malaya ...

. In June 1965, Ong resigned from his seat, citing the lack of ''"effective media whereby opposition parties can convey their message to the people"''. The vacated seat was won back by the PAP in the by-election. Subsequently, UPP became dormant, and did not contest in further general elections, although it remains registered as a political party.

Election results

Legislative Assembly

References

Background of UPP
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