| A merger of PP with many lawyers and DP with many wealthy businessmen to consolidate the elite's position after a poor showing in the 1955 General Election. Initially, it was meant to be named "United Liberal Party" before settling on LSP. Despite becoming the largest and most resourceful party, its political fortunes remained dull. In 1958, several members left to establish SPA along with former members of LF and WP. Both LSP and SPA fared badly in the 1959 polls, which PAP won by a landslide. Before the 1963 GE, LSP was dissolved by its remnant members led by Mrs Felice Leon-Soh. Some of them stood as independent candidates in that GE without success. |
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