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The role of the commission was to manage key services for the Town of Singapore, such as utilities, water services and urban planning. [2] The body had commission board members internally elected but ceased from 1913 until 1949, after which it acted like a quasi-municipal government until the City Council of Singapore was created in 1951. [2]
The City Council of Singapore was the administrative council of the City of Singapore responsible for the provision of water, electricity, gas, roads and bridges and street lighting. [ 1 ] It was dissolved in 1959 when Singapore attained self-governance from the British Empire , and it was subsequently abolished upon Singapore's independence ...
The 1988 elections introduced the Group Representation Constituency (GRC), a plurality General ticket voting system for a team of between three and six candidates, to improve the ethnicity representation in Parliament and town council management; certain analysis crititized the scheme as a form of gerrymandering to reduce opposition ...
April 1949 Singapore Municipal Commission election; December 1949 Singapore Municipal Commission election; 1950 Singapore Municipal Commission election; 1951 Singapore City Council election; 1952 Singapore City Council election; 1953 Singapore City Council election; 1957 Singapore City Council election; 1958 Singapore City Council by-election
PAP's Chan Choy Siong in Kreta Ayer won the best margin in the election with 86.8% of the votes cast, while the worst-performing candidate for the election was T. R. Fernandez, who garnered 258 votes, 4.2% of the valid votes cast in Delta. Only four candidates had garnered under 12.5% of their vote share and had their $250 election deposit ...
Report of the Select Committee on the Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Bill (Bill No. 23/87) and the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore (Amendment No. 2) Bill (Bill No. 24/87) [Parl. 3 of 1988], Singapore: Printed for the Government of Singapore by Singapore National Printers, 1988, OCLC 30875454.
A candidate for a Municipal Commission election would need to have a proposer and a seconder from among the registered voters in one of the five wards in Singapore. [1] Once a candidate is nominated, a voting date is scheduled. [1] The election system did not provide for political party affiliations for candidates but municipal commissioners ...
Similar to previous elections since 1980, parties who field at least six candidates for the election are eligible for participating in the party broadcast, with the allocated time depending on the number of participating candidates. The order of appearance is based on the number of candidates starting from the lowest. [222] [223]