1977 Singaporean by-elections

←  1970 14 May 1977 (Radin Mas) 23 July 1977 (Bukit Merah) 1979  →
2 seats to the Parliament of Singapore
Registered	35,412
Turnout	33,897 (95.72%) 1.27%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Lee Kuan Yew J. B. Jeyaretnam Lee Siew Choh Party PAP WP BS Seats won 2 0 0 Seat change Popular vote 23,678 5,021 4,473 Percentage 71.38% 15.14% 13.48% Swing 4.62% 2.69% 13.48%
MPs before election N. Govindasamy Naidu Lim Guan Hoo PAP Elected MPs Bernard Chen Tien Lap Lim Chee Onn PAP

On 14 May and 23 July 1977 in Singapore, by-elections were respectively held for the constituencies of Radin Mas and Bukit Merah. They were called following the deaths of MPs Govindasamy Naidu and Lim Guan Hoo.

Contents

• Background
• Results
• References

Background

On 13 February, Bukit Merah MP Lim Guan Hoo suffered compilations from a stroke, and on the following day, N. Govindasamy Naidu died in office.

While there were plans for a multi-cornered contest, Workers' Party secretary-general J. B. Jeyaretnam stepped forward to contest the ward against its PAP candidate Bernard Chen Tien Lap, a former civil servant. An independent candidate attempted to contest but was disqualified for the absence in electoral register.

On 30 June, more than a month after the first by-election, Lim Guan Hoo died. Like its first by-election, negotiations for opposition party to contest the ward took place and to avoid a multi-cornered contest, this time being Lee Siew Choh of the Barisan Sosialis party. The PAP fielded civilist Lim Chee Oon to defend the seat.

Results

References

• Background of First 1977 By election
• Background of Second 1977 By election
• Results of First 1977 By election
• Results of Second 1977 By election