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1959 PAP prime ministerial election information


Singapore PAP Prime Ministerial Election, 1959
1959 PAP prime ministerial election
30 May 1959

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.

  1. ^ a b "Lee Kuan Yew elected as Prime Minister of Singapore". AsiaOne. 10 September 2009. Retrieved 16 December 2012.

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