1953 Singapore City Council election

none 1953 Singapore City Council election Singapore Flag of Singapore (1946–1952).svg parliamentary no 1952 Singapore City Council election 1952 1957 Singapore City Council election 1957 5 December 1953 6 of the 18 elected seats to the Singapore City Council 49.44% File:Tan Chye Cheng (cropped).png Tan Chye Cheng Progressive Did not contest 8 3 9 8,532 40.52% 1 File:Lim Yew Hock (cropped).jpg Lim Yew Hock Labour Did not contest 7 0 5 1,723 8.18% 2 The 1953 Singapore City Council election was the 3rd election to the Singapore City Council. It was held on 5 December 1953 to elect 6 of the 18 seats in the City Council.CITY COUNCIL ELECTION 1953 https://sg-elections.com/city-election/1953/ live https://web.archive.org/web/20150221172457/http://singapore-elections.com/city-election/1953/ 2015-02-21 15 July 2020 Singapore Elections Results Totalbefore Won Not up Totalafter +/– Progressive Party 8532 8 3 6 9 +1 Labour Party 1723 7 0 5 5 –2 United Malays National Organisation 1622 0 0 0 0 New Independent 9177 3 3 1 4 +1 473 0 43538 Singapore Elections By constituency ConstituencyElectoratePartyCandidateVotes%City6,700IndependentJumabhoy Mohamed JumabhoyUncontestedEast9,726IndependentMak Pak Shee2,16451.4Progressive PartySyed Hassan Al-Junied1,40933.5United Malays National OrganisationSyed Esa Almenoar63415.1North9,759Progressive PartyLim Choo Sye2,58554.8Labour PartyShunmugh Subra Manyam1,72336.6United Malays National OrganisationSyed Haron A. Alhabshi4058.6Rochore9,445IndependentT. A. Simon1,60734.8IndependentSyed Mumtaz Hussain1,51632.8IndependentGuok Sing Inn1,49332.3South10,048Progressive PartyManickvasagar Subramaniam2,80153.9IndependentMariappan Verappan2,39746.1West4,560Progressive PartySoh Ghee Soon1,73774.9United Malays National OrganisationCuthbert Francis Joseph Ess58325.1Source: Singapore Elections References Category:Singapore City Council elections Category:1953 in Singapore Singapore Category:December 1953 in Asia