Results of the Singaporean general election, 1948
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The following shows the full results for the Singaporean general election, 1948, with candidates and statistics for each electorial division:
| Constituency | Electorate | Turnout | Spoilt votes |
Winning margin | Parties | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Progressive Party | Independent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Municipal North-East (two seats) |
8691 | 5796 | 660 | 1050 (1st seat) 599 (2nd seat) |
22.5 (1st seat) 14.8 (2nd seat) |
John Laycock | 2221 | 26.6 | Mohamed Javad Namazie | 2672 | 34.3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Lim Chuan Geok | 892 | 8.2 | M. K. Chidambram | 1622 | 11.8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Charles Joseph Pemberton Paglar | 1420 | 11.1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Richard Lim C. H | 944 | 4.6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Valiya Purayil Abdullah | 1161 | 9.9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Municipal South-West (two seats) |
8838 | 5150 | 547 | 2553 (1st seat) 2484 (2nd seat) |
26.2 (1st seat) 25.5 (2nd seat) |
Tan Chye Ching | 4125 | 42.3 | Mirza Bin Abdul Majid | 1572 | 16.1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Nazir Bin Abdul Mallal | 4056 | 41.6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rural East | 2092 | 1144 | 39 | 109 | 9.8 | Sardon Bin Haji Zubir | 607 | 54.9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cheong Hock Chye | 498 | 45.1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rural West | 2774 | 2036 | 75 | 461 | 23.5 | Arumugan Ponnu Rajah | 460 | 23.5 | S. C. Goho | 981 | 50.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Pillai Malathi | 520 | 26.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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