Runaway Win For Singapore Leader
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) SINGAPORE, April 14. The ruling People’s Action Party of the Prime Minister (Mr Lee Kuan Yew) has swept all seven remaining Parliamentary seats at stake in Singapore’s general elections, to win a five-year term in absolute power.
The party had already been guaranteed a third straight term when it captured, uncontested, 50 of the 58 seats on nomination day, last February. In yesterday’s polling, Mr Lee and six other P.A.P. members scored convincing victories against five Independents and two Workers’ Party candidates. Mr Lee himself polled 9128 votes of a possible 10,806, compared with his Independent opponent’s 548. In a statement after the
results were announced, Mr Lee promised: “The PA P. will take steps to ensure that we ride through the storms and squalls of the crucial years ahead. We shall triumph.” Mr Lee added that the results in the seven constituencies, comprising 84,883 voters, were an indication of what would have happened if all 58 seats had been contested. Except for the Workers’ Party, none of the other 10 registered political parties in Singapore fielded any candidates.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31654, 15 April 1968, Page 9
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