LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY GENERAL ELECTION 1959
SEATS

Party Leader Held Candidates Won New
Singapore People's Alliance  LIM Yew Hock 
[Cairnhill]		 9
(37.5%)		 39
(76.5%)		 4
(10.3%)		 4
(7.8%)
People's Action Party  LEE Kuan Yew 
[Tanjong Pagar]		 4
(16.7%)		 51
(100.0%)		 43
(84.3%)		 43
(84.3%)
Liberal Socialist Party  E. K. TAN 
[River Valley]		 2
(8.3%)		 32
(62.7%)		 0 0
United Malays National Organisation  SYED ALI Zedha Alsagoff 
[Didn't contest]		 2
(8.3%)		 8
(15.7%)		 3
(37.5%)		 3
(5.9%)
Citizens' Party  SEAH Peng Chuan 
[Kallang]		 1
(4.2%)		 5
(9.8%)		 0 0
Malayan Chinese Association  WONG Foo Nam 
[Mountbatten]		 1
(4.2%)		 5
(9.8%)		 0 0
Labour Front  Francis THOMAS 
[Thomson]		 0 3
(5.9%)		 0 0
Kesatuan Melayu  MUDA MUHAMED Mahmud 
[Didn't contest]		 0 3
(5.9%)		 0 0
Partai Rakyat  HARUN Mohamed Amin 
[Geylang Serai]		 - 4
(7.8%)		 0 0
Pan-Malayan Islamic Party  ABDULLAH Zawawi 
[Didn't contest]		 - 3
(5.9%)		 0 0
Workers' Party  David MARSHALL 
[Cairnhill]		 - 3
(5.9%)		 0 0
Katong United Residents' Association  Felice LEON-SOH 
[Mountbatten]		 - 2
(3.9%)		 0 0
Malayan Indian Congress  T. T. K. ALEXANDER 
[Bukit Panjang]		 - 2
(3.9%)		 0 0
Independents - 5
(20.8%)		 34
(66.7%)		 1
(2.9%)		 1
(2.0%)
TOTAL 24 194 51 51
Vacant 1 - - -

Previous seats: GE 1955 & BE 1957 Next seats: BE Apr 1961, BE Jul 1961 & GE 1963

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