CITY COUNCIL ORDINARY ELECTIONS 1957

Unlike the previous Municipal Commission elections where only a number of seats were elected, all in the renamed City Council were up for grabs. PAP worked with the ruling LF, each side fielding candidates in about half the number of seats to avoid contests against each other. Former Chief Minister David Marshall, who had since resigned from LF, formed WP. PAP came out tops in the race, winning all but one of its contested seats. Combined with UMNO, the PAP-led coalition held a majority in the Council, while the trounced LF was left out of a share of power. PAP's Ong Eng Guan became the Council's mayor and the first mayor in Singapore.

Nomination day: 18 November 1957
Polling day: 21 December 1957

Total voters: 504,291
Total voter turnout: 165,404 (32.8%)

Election deposit: $250