1957 Singapore City Council election

1957 Singapore City Council election

← 1953 21 December 1957 1958 →
All 32 seats to the City Council 17 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Lee Kuan Yew Felice Leon-Soh Lim Yew Hock Party PAP LSP LF Leader's seat Did not contest Did not contest Did not contest Seats won 13 7 4 Seat change New New New Popular vote 49,500 56,204 25,711 Percentage 30.61% 34.76% 15.90%
Elected Mayor Ong Eng Guan PAP

The 1957 Singapore City Council elections was the first time that all appointed seats were scrapped, and all seats were opened for direct popular voting. Nomination day was on 18 November 1957, with voting held on 21 December in the same year.

A total of 32 seats were contested. Also up for contention, was the new office of Mayor of Singapore, which would be awarded to the leader of the political party with the majority of seats won.

Under First-past-the-post voting, six candidates (out of the 14 multi-cornered contests) are elected to the council with under a simple majority (50%) of the valid votes cast. The results for Sepoy Lines came with then a record of the narrowest election margin to date at about 0.4%, which would later be surpassed by the River Valley Constituency's 0.05% margin in the 1959 Singaporean general election, two years later. 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 forfeited.

• City Council Ordinary Elections 1957^[usurped]
• The Workers' Party of Singapore - History - 1957-1963