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6 of the 22 seats in the Legislative Council | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Registered | 22,334 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 63.25% | |||||||||||||||||||||
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General elections were held for the first time in Singapore on 20 March 1948,[1] when six of the 22 seats on the Legislative Council became directly-elected.
Voting was not compulsory and was restricted to British subjects with residency or were born in Singapore. Around 2.4% (~23,000) of the total population of 940,000 voted in the election.
Although various organisations called for a boycott of the elections, voter turnout was 63.1%. The Progressive Party (PP) was the only contesting party, winning three of the six elected seats.