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The People's Action Party (PAP) is a major conservative [9] [10] political party of the centre-right [11] in Singapore. It is one of the three contemporary political parties represented in the Parliament of Singapore, alongside the opposition Workers' Party (WP) and the Progress Singapore Party (PSP). [12] [13]
The internal concentration of power in the PAP is vested in the CEC, headed by the secretary-general, the highest-ranking position in the party. [1] [2] From the 1950s, up until 1984, most of Singapore's influential leaders were members of the CEC, as well as the Cabinet of Singapore and the Armed Forces Council. [3]
In the 1959 general elections, the People's Action Party (PAP) swept to power with 43 out of the 51 seats in the Assembly, and Lee Kuan Yew became the first prime minister of Singapore. The executive branch of the Government of Singapore remained unchanged following Singapore's merger with Malaysia in 1963, and subsequent independence in 1965.
Kreta Ayer-Kim Seng itself includes the Singapore River, Chinatown and Bukit Ho Swee. During 1988 general election, the three-member PAP team led by Lee Boon Yang won the election with 62.68% of the votes against the WP with 37.32% of the votes. Jalan Besar GRC has been contested by the opposition at every election, except 1991.
Overall PAP saw its share of the vote fall to 66.6%. The dominance of the PAP, often to the extent that there is no effective opposition, has led to Singapore being described as a one-party state. [51] [52] There are two opposition parties in the 14th Parliament of Singapore as of 2020 - The Workers' Party and the Progress Singapore Party. [53]
The vision was to bring all opposition parties under one banner to counter the PAP's dominance, but it was met with limited success due to opposition infighting. The NSP left the alliance in 2007, and in 2010, the SPP itself left when there was internal disagreements over the SPP's attempts to bring in the newly formed Reform Party (RP).
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The constituency was first formed prior to the 1988 general election and was won by the People's Action Party (PAP) in its debut. However, PAP's representation of Hougang SMC would only last three years, when it lost the seat to the Worker's Party (WP) candidate Low Thia Khiang after an almost 12% swing during the 1991 general election .