The People's Action Party is a major conservative centre-right political party in Singapore and is one of the three contemporary political parties represented in Parliament, alongside the Workers' Party (WP) and Progress Singapore Party (PSP).
The Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) is the Ontario provincial wing of the Communist Party of Canada. Using the name Labor-Progressive Party from 1943 until 1959, the group won two seats in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario: A.A. MacLeod and J.B. Salsberg were elected in the 1943 provincial election as "Labour" candidates but took their seats as members of the Labor-Progressive Party, which the banned Communist Party launched as its public face in a convention held on August 21 and 22, 1943, shortly after both the August 4 provincial election and the August 7 election of Communist Fred Rose to the House of Commons in a Montreal by-election.
The Labour Front is a defunct political party in Singapore that operated from 1955 to 1960.
Haji Omar Lim Yew Hock was a Singaporean politician who served as a Member of the Legislative Council and Assembly from 1948 to 1963, and the second Chief Minister of Singapore from 1956 to 1959.
General elections were held in Singapore on 10 April 1951 to elect nine seats in the Legislative Council, up from six seats in the 1948 elections. A 32-day-long campaign period was scheduled, with nomination day on 8 March 1951. The result was a victory for the Progressive Party, which won six of the nine seats.
General elections were held in Singapore on 30 May 1959. They were held under the new constitution and the first in which all 51 seats in the Legislative Assembly were elected. This was the first election victory for the People's Action Party (PAP), as they won a landslide victory with 43 seats, and the party has since remained in power after the elections.
The Newport by-election, 1956 was a parliamentary by-election held on 6 July 1956 for the British House of Commons constituency of Newport in Monmouthshire.
General elections were held in Singapore on 2 April 1955 to elect the 25 elected seats in the Legislative Assembly. Nomination day was on 28 February 1955.
Bukit Timah Single Member Constituency is a former single-member constituency (SMC) in Bukit Timah, Singapore. The name - Bukit Timah still exists since the independence.
Changi Single Member Constituency is a defunct single member constituency in Changi and eastern outer islands such as Pulau Ubin, Singapore; from 1951 elections to 1997 elections which most of the part had absorbed into Siglap ward in East Coast GRC while the remaining were to form as Changi-Simei ward in Aljunied GRC, only to be part of East Coast GRC 5 years later before the 2001 general elections.
Kampong Kembangan Single Member Constituency is a former single member constituency in Kembangan.
Stamford Single Member Constituency was a Single Member Constituency in Singapore. It used to exist from 1955 to 1976 and was merged with Telok Ayer Single Member Constituency in 1976.
Cairnhill Single Member Constituency was a constituency in Singapore. It used to exist from 1955 to 1991, and was replaced by the Kampong Glam Group Representation Constituency. Lim Kim San is a Member of Parliament from 1959 to 1980 and was replaced by Wong Kwei Cheong which ran all the way until the Kampong Glam GRC merger in 1991.
Katong was a constituency in Singapore from 1951 until 1959 and from 1968 until 1984. The constituency was represented in the Legislative Council from 1951 until 1955, in the Legislative Assembly of Singapore from 1955 until 1959, and in Parliament from 1968 until 1984.
Crawford Single Member Constituency was a constituency in Singapore. It used to exist from 1959 to 1976, broke off from Rochore.
Kampong Kapor Single Member Constituency was a constituency in Singapore. It used to exist from 1955 to 1976.
Seletar Single Member Constituency was a single-member constituency of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Singapore between 1951 and 1959. It covered the Seletar area in North-East Region. The constituency's boundaries were redrawn in 1955, with Sembawang constituency created from part of its former area.
Tan Chye Cheng, also known as C. C. Tan, was a Singaporean lawyer and politician.
Keppel was a constituency represented in the Legislative Council of Singapore from 1951 until 1955. It elected one Legislative Council member.
