| 4th Parliament of Singapore | |||||
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Composition at the start of the 4th Parliament of Singapore | |||||
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| Legislative body | Parliament of Singapore | ||||
| Meeting place | Old Parliament House | ||||
| Term | 7 February 1977 – 5 December 1980 | ||||
| Election | 23 December 1976 | ||||
| Government | People's Action Party | ||||
| Parliament of Singapore | |||||
| Members | 69 | ||||
| Speaker | Yeoh Ghim Seng | ||||
| Leader of the House | Edmund W. Barker | ||||
| Prime Minister | Lee Kuan Yew | ||||
| Party control | PAP supermajority | ||||
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The 4th Parliament of Singapore was a meeting of the Parliament of Singapore. Its first session commenced on 7 February 1977 and was prorogued on 2 October 1978. It commenced its second session on 26 December 1978 and was dissolved on 5 December 1980.[1]
The members of the 4th Parliament were elected in the 1976 general election. Parliament was controlled by a People's Action Party majority, led by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and his Cabinet. The Speaker was Dr Yeoh Ghim Seng.[2]
The fourth Parliament had eight changes throughout the term, with a series of four by-elections ensuing in 1977 and 1979, making it one of the largest change of Parliament's composition since the vacation of Barisan Sosialis during the first Parliament.