12 votes from the Central Executive Committee of PAP (excluding Chairman)
Candidate
Lee Kuan Yew
Ong Eng Guan
Party
PAP
PAP
Popular vote
6 + C[1]
6
Percentage
50%
50%
Elected Prime Minister
Lee Kuan Yew
PAP
This is the only Prime Ministerial Election in Singapore history. The People's Action Party Central Executive Committee met on the victory of the 1959 Singaporean general election to elect a Prime Minister.[1] At the end of the election, Lee Kuan Yew won by a mere 1 vote, that was voted by the then party Chairman Toh Chin Chye.
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