Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam (5 January 1926 – 30 September 2008) was a Singaporean politician and lawyer who served as secretary-general of the opposition Workers' Party from 1971 to 2001 and was the de facto Leader of the Opposition between 1981 and...
Kenneth Andrew Jeyaretnam (6 March 1959 – 18 July 2026) was a Singaporean politician and hedge fund manager who served as the secretary-general of the Reform Party from 2009 until his death in 2026. Jeyaretnam was the elder son of J. B. Jeyaretnam,...
Philip Antony Jeyaretnam (born 1964) is a Singaporean judge, lawyer and author. He has been serving as a Judge of the High Court of Singapore since 1 November 2021, having first been appointed to the Bench as a Judicial Commissioner on 4 January...
Chiam See Tong (born 12 March 1935) is a Singaporean former politician and lawyer who served as secretary-general of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) between 1980 and 1993, and later served as secretary-general of the Singapore People's Party...
The Reform Party (RP) is a political party in Singapore. According to its constitution, the party seeks to promote "political, social and economic reform; restoration of full human rights; a fairer and just distribution of wealth with the...
A parliamentary by-election was held in the Anson Constituency in Singapore on 31 October 1981. It was called following the resignation of Devan Nair, the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) from the People's Action Party (PAP), who had vacated the...
Lee Kuan Yew (born Harry Lee Kuan Yew; 16 September 1923 – 23 March 2015), also known as LKY, was a Singaporean politician, barrister and statesman who served as the first prime minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990. A member of the People's...
The Workers' Party (WP) is a major social democratic political party in Singapore and one of the two contemporary political parties represented in Parliament, alongside the governing People's Action Party (PAP). The WP sits on the centre-left of the...
General elections were held in Singapore on 2 January 1997 to elect members of Parliament. They were the tenth general elections since the introduction of self-government in 1959 and the eighth since independence in 1965. The number of parliamentary...
By-elections were held in Singapore on 10 February 1979 for seven constituencies, with nominations being accepted on 31 January. With 80,075 registered voters, the 1979 by-elections remain the largest by-election by combined electorate to have ever...