PARLIAMENTARY BY-ELECTION 1981
ANSON

Voters: 14,512

Polled: 13,746 (94.7%)

People's Action Party Workers' Party
PANG Kim Hin, 32
Deputy divisional manager [M]
Joshua Benjamin JEYARETNAM, 55
Lawyer [M]
6,359 (47.1%) 7,012 (51.9%)
United People's Front
HARBANS Singh, 55
Lawyer [M]
Forfeited $1,500 deposit131 (1.0%)Forfeited $1,500 deposit

Winner's majority: 653 (3.8%)

Valid votes: 13,502 (98.2%)

Rejected votes: 244 (1.8%)

Previous GE 1980: PAP won 84.1% (swing -37.0%)

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