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34-503: Its first contest happened in 2006 with the opponent being Singapore Democratic Alliance . For the 2011 general election , the incumbent People's Action Party announced that their team would be led by Teo Chee Hean, and include then-Senior Parliamentary Secretary Teo Ser Luck , Penny Low , as well as new candidates Janil Puthucheary , Gan Thiam Poh and Zainal Sapari . In the 2015 general election , Penny Low retired from politics and new candidates Ng Chee Meng and Sun Xueling joined

68-741: A common grouping under which different opposition parties could stand as a political coalition in elections against the ruling People's Action Party (PAP). The alliance was initially a four-party coalition, which consist of his party of SPP (which adopted the party's logo at the time), as well as the National Solidarity Party (NSP), the Singapore Justice Party (SJP) and the Singapore Malay National Organization (PKMS). Notable members include Cheo Chai Chen and Tan Lead Shake of

102-402: A fully elected and sovereign parliament; to ensure that every member of society is entitled to political, social and economic rights; and to eliminate poverty by enforcing a fairer and just distribution of wealth. In its National Day Message 2015 published on 9 August 2015, the party stated, "We need to secure for Singaporeans a fairer distribution of the national wealth by redistributing some of

136-580: A heart attack, and over a thousand people attended his funeral. J.B. Jeyaretnam's son, Kenneth Jeyaretnam , who at the time resided with his British family in the United Kingdom and had previously never participated in politics directly, took over as secretary-general in April 2009. On 8 May 2010, the party announced its six candidates well in advance of the upcoming General Election , which also include Kenneth. However, several members who also joined

170-439: The 2013 by-election , Lim contested again, but later conceded defeat during vote counting; ultimately, he garnered only 0.53% of the valid votes cast for the election, resulting him as the second candidate in history (after United People's Front candidate Harbans Singh) to have his deposit forfeited on both times, and consequently set its record-worst score for a candidate in post-independence Singapore. The party contested in

204-418: The 2020 election , with the election marked Lim's last election leading the party. Their party only contested Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC , which produced a rare three-cornered contest against a third party, Peoples Voice , making it only the second time in the election's history a multi-cornered fight occurred within a GRC (the first being 1992's by-election under Marine Parade GRC ). The party scored 23.67% of

238-448: The 2011 elections, neither the NSP (who field a large slate of candidates for the election), SDA, or SPP were successful: SPP's Loh was made a Non-Constituency Member of Parliament although losing the contest to a three-time PAP candidate Sitoh Yih Pin , by a wafer-thin margin of 0.72% or 114 votes; candidate Desmond Lim became the only candidate forfeiting his electoral deposit (S$ 16,000) in

272-452: The 2013 by-election and 2015 general elections neither see improvement in the party, as the party lost contests to the WP and PAP, respectively, by large margins. In 2018, they were among the seven other opposition parties (the other were People's Power Party , Singaporeans First , Singapore Democratic Party , Democratic Progressive Party , National Solidarity Party , and People's Voice Party,

306-588: The CEC members of the alliance denied their request. The party fielded two teams to contest in West Coast GRC and Ang Mo Kio GRC , which were respectively led by then- Minister of Trade & Industry Lim Hng Kiang and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong , both by People's Action Party (PAP). In his first campaign speech on late April 2011, Kenneth said that competition in politics would lead to better and more intelligent policies for Singapore. He also noted that

340-565: The NSP withdrew in hopes of rejuvenating the party, and later on 2 March 2011, the SPP, after Chiam, mostly for health reasons, was relieved of his role as chairman after the Council voted for three days earlier, and SPP further cited their disagreements (notably the PKMS) for attempting to invite Reform Party (RP), a party which was newly formed on 3 July 2008, to SDA, and also fielding a successor for

374-500: The SDP and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) respectively, later joined the SDA where they represent the NSP. The alliance of four parties contested in both the 2001 and 2006 elections . It was the first coalition in post-independence since 1963, after the now-defunct Singapore Alliance Party . After the 2006 elections, two parties withdrew from the SDA before the next election ; In 2007,

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408-516: The alliance. Prior to the founding in 2001, then-opposition Member of Parliament (MP) for Potong Pasir Chiam See Tong was a member of Singapore Democratic Party (SDP). Chiam resigned to join Singapore People's Party (SPP) ahead of the 1997 elections due to a leadership schism with another member, Chee Soon Juan , who was made the party's secretary-general. The party was first established in 2001 by Chiam where he want to provide

442-478: The books Make it Right for Singapore and The Hatchet Man of Singapore and was often seen promoting his books outside Centrepoint, a shopping centre on Orchard Road. In May 2007, Jeyaretnam was discharged from bankrupt and eventually reinstated in the bar later September, in which he would go on to register and form Reform Party on 3 July 2008, where he became the pro-tem Secretary-General. On 30 September, around three months after founding, Jeyaretnam died following

476-437: The debut of activists Roy Ngerng and M Ravi . In their nomination speech for Ang Mo Kio GRC, Ravi's speech was made semi-viral after he accidentally chanted out PAP before quickly correcting to RP while persuading the voters to vote for their party. On 7 September, they subsequently released their manifesto. On 11 September, their electoral performance dwindled down compared to the last election as they garnered only 20.60% of

510-448: The latter formed by former NSP chief Lim Tean) present in a meeting led by former PAP MP Tan Cheng Bock , in their discussion of a possibility of forming a collation for the next election. On 5 August 2020, chairman Andy Zhu and treasurer Noraini Yunus were removed by Jeyaretnam from the CEC with, CEC member Charles Yeo and deputy treasurer Mahaboob Batcha, taking their places as chairman and treasurer respectively. Several members left

544-477: The massive wealth hoarded by the PAP Government." It proposed to do this "without adopting a high tax regime which might damage Singapore's competitiveness", given the healthy state of Singapore's national finances. On nomination day for the 2015 General Elections (1 September), the party proposed a S$ 500 monthly allowance to Singaporean citizens aged 65 years and above. The Reform Party is unique among

578-649: The new party Progress Singapore Party led by former MP Tan Cheng Bock . Ahead of the elections, the party had accused the Progress Singapore Party for not living up to an agreement so that they could avoid a three way fight with the PAP in Yio Chu Kang SMC. In response, the PSP argued that no such agreement existed. During the campaigning period, secretary-general Kenneth did not participate in

612-524: The number of respective seats and the results combined from the four parties (NSP, SJP, SPP and PKMS) were reflected in the table. NSP and SPP left after the 2006 general election. Reform Party (Singapore) The Reform Party ( abbreviation : RP ) is an opposition political party in Singapore . The Reform Party is a liberal - democratic party. According to the party's constitution, it seeks to promote "political, social and economic reform;

646-543: The only three-cornered contest in the newly formed Punggol East SMC (a ward carved out from the neighbouring Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC , which the alliance also contest); and members who joined as independents contesting in Tanjong Pagar GRC (the election's only uncontested constituency) was disqualified during nomination day. In the 2015 election, SDA fielded their only team of six in the only contested constituency of Pasir Ris–Punggol GRC, but with no success. In

680-561: The party and followed Zhu and Noraini to form the Singapore United Party. The slogan on the Reform Party's website states "Transparency, Accountability and Inclusion: A democratic Singapore for Singaporeans." In the 2015 elections, the party slogan was "A Brighter Future Tomorrow, Today". The main objectives of the party stated in its constitution are: to maintain and promote an independently appointed judiciary and

714-616: The party resigned to join other parties, such as Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss , Tony Tan Lay Thiam and his wife Hazel Poa , Nicole Seah , James Teo, J. Sivalingam; Justin Ong, Samantha De Silva, Gan Theng Wei and Tan Tee Seng. Earlier on, the party was initially invited by the Singapore Democratic Alliance (a collation formed by then-opposition MP Chiam See Tong of the Singapore People's Party , along with Justice Party and Pertubuhan Kebangsaan Melayu Singapura ), but

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748-745: The political parties in Singapore, both government and opposition, in that its party structure does not follow a cadre based system of political organisation. The party constitution states that the Party Conference is the supreme governing authority. In their inaugural election, the party garnered 31.8% of the votes contested in Ang Mo Kio and West Coast GRCs. Their overall popular vote was 4.3%. A by-election in Punggol East Single Member Constituency

782-428: The restoration of full human rights; a fairer and just distribution of wealth with the elimination of poverty; an independently appointed judiciary and a fully elected and sovereign parliament". Its stated philosophy is "That every member of the society is born with fundamental rights which cannot be abrogated... and that it is the paramount duty of the society to promote the human dignity of its every single member." It

816-424: The ruling People's Action Party (PAP) would likely open the floodgates to more foreigners to enter Singapore again once they formed the next government. However, their electoral debut was unable to bear fruit, as both contests were lost to the PAP with a combined vote share of under 35% from the two constituencies that it contested. Some members subsequently left the party afterwards. Their subsequent contests for

850-657: The team. In the 2020 general election , the GRC was reduced to five members, with a newly formed constituency called Punggol West SMC carved out from the boundaries of Pasir-Ris Punggol GRC and Sengkang Central ward carved out to become part of the new Sengkang GRC , the Tampines retail park (part of the Pasir Ris area) was also redrawn into Tampines GRC . Note : Elections Department Singapore do not include rejected votes for calculation of candidate's vote share. Hence,

884-537: The threshold of retaining the deposit is 12.5%, or one-eighth, of the valid votes cast for the constituency). Their second general election (and third overall) also fielded 11 candidates contested in three contested constituencies, with the addition of Radin Mas SMC , a ward part of the Jeyaretnam's former Anson constituency, and the two previously contested GRCs, Ang Mo Kio and West Coast. The election also marked

918-448: The total of all candidates' vote share will be 100%. Singapore Democratic Alliance The Singapore Democratic Alliance ( abbreviation : SDA ) is an opposition political coalition between Singapore Justice Party (SJP), Singapore Malay National Organization (PKMS), Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), National Solidarity Party (NSP) and Singapore People's Party (SPP) in 2001. As of 2023, only SJP and PKMS are in

952-453: The votes on the three constituencies contested, or 2.63% of the overall popular vote, which was mostly attributed to the large swing towards the ruling party, where they attained large winning margins. The party fielded only six candidates and contested two constituencies, Ang Mo Kio GRC and Radin Mas; in a breaking tradition, the party chose not to contest West Coast GRC, which was reserved by

986-408: The votes while PV ended up losing their deposits after garnering 12.18%. Prior to the elections, there was a joint alliance between the four parties, Singaporeans First , People's Power Party , Reform Party and Democratic Progressive Party , who initially announced to form an alliance of their own, but ended up applying for the SDA on 1 April and has never materialized. Due to an alliance,

1020-459: The ward (who later went on to choose Chiam's wife, Lina Loh ) while Chiam would go to contest Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC . SDA now consists of PKMS and SJP. The chairperson was later succeeded by the SJP's leader Desmond Lim , notable for helping Chiam in managing his town council funds. However, the separation of Chiam's SPP saw waning on the alliance, where they fell short on winning the elections. In

1054-542: Was founded by lawyer and veteran politician J.B. Jeyaretnam, notable as the first opposition candidate to be elected Member of Parliament under the Workers' Party of Singapore banner after a period of about 16 years when not a single opposition candidate in Singapore won a seat, as well as the secretary-general of the Workers’ Party from 1971 to 2001. At the time, Jeyaretnam (then a Non-Constituency Member of Parliament )

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1088-409: Was founded by opposition veteran and lawyer J. B. Jeyaretnam , notable as the former Secretary-General of the Workers' Party of Singapore and the first opposition candidate in post-independence Singapore, on 3 July 2008. Around three months after the party's foundation, founder Jeyaretnam died on 30 September, and the leadership has since taken over by his son, Kenneth Jeyaretnam . The Reform Party

1122-439: Was held on 26 January 2013 after the resignation of former parliamentary speaker Michael Palmer on 12 December 2012. Secretary-general Kenneth participated in the by-election, but was defeated to WP's Lee Li Lian in a rare four-cornered contest. Additionally, due to a vote split towards the major parties, Kenneth had forfeited his S$ 14,500 election deposit as he garnered only 1.2% of the valid votes cast (per electoral rules,

1156-552: Was sued by then- Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew and then- Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong over defamation at the total damages amounting S$ 565,000 including court costs of S$ 270,000, and was declared bankrupt (which also barred the right from standing in elections) after failing to follow up his payment. He subsequently resigned from his leadership post and party later, citing that the party (notably then-Secretary General Low Thia Khiang ) did not receive due support to help him repay his payments. Since his resignation, Jeyaretnam authored

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