Workers' Party (Singapore)
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The Workers' Party is a major social democratic political party in Singapore and one of the two contemporary political parties represented in Parliament, alongside the governing People's Action Party.
David Marshall, the first Chief Minister of Singapore and founder of the Workers' Party
A residential block (pictured in 2023) in Hougang SMC, a safe seat for the WP. The party, fielding Low Thia Khiang, first won the constituency in 1991.
A Workers' Party election rally at the Serangoon Stadium.
North Vista Secondary School, one of the counting centres for the Punggol East SMC (later as Sengkang GRC since 2020).
David Saul Marshall was a Singaporean lawyer, politician, and diplomat who served as the first chief minister of Singapore from April 1955 to June 1956. He resigned after just over a year into his chi
Workers' Party (Singapore)
…the WP has been the only political party, other than the PAP, with elected Members of Parliament (MPs). The Workers' Party was founded in 1957 by David Marshall, having previously led the more left-wing Labour Front (LF) to victory in 1955, forming a minority government and becoming the first Chief Minister of…
Marshall studied at the University of London (pictured) from September 1934 to March 1936.
Marshall with "B" Company, c. 1938–1942
The POWs at Nisi-Asibetsu, c. 1945. Marshall is the one with the pipe near the centre.