10th Parliament of Singapore

The 10th Parliament of Singapore was the previous Parliament of Singapore. The first session commenced on 25 March 2002 and was prorogued on the 1 December 2004. The second session begun from 12 January 2005 and was dissolved on 20 April 2006.[1] The membership was set by the 2001 Singapore General Election on November 2001, and it has been only changed due to Lee Hsien Loong being elected as the Prime Minister in Singapore in 2004.

10th Parliament of Singapore
Majority parliament
25 March 2002 – 20 April 2006
House
Speaker of Parliament
Prime
Minister
Leader
of the
Opposition
Session(s)
1st Session
25 March 2002 – 1 December 2004
2nd Session
12 January 2005 – 20 April 2006
Cabinet(s)
10th Cabinet
Goh Chok Tong
25 March 2002 – 12 August 2004
10th Cabinet
Lee Hsien Loong
12 August 2004 – 20 April 2006
Parliamentarians
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The 10th Parliament is controlled by a People's Action Party majority, led by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and members of the cabinet, which assumed power on November 2001, and later led by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who assumed power on December 2004. The Opposition is led by the Mr Chiam See Tong of the Singapore Democratic Alliance. The Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore is Abdullah bin Tarmugi, of the People's Action Party. He was elected as the Speaker of the House for the 10th Parliament on 25 March 2002.

Result of the Singapore General Election, 2001
Party Votes % Seats +/–
People's Action Party470,76575.382+1
Singapore Democratic Alliance75,24812.010
Singapore Democratic Party50,6078.100
Workers' Party19,0603.010
Democratic Progressive Party5,3340.900
Independents4,2530.700
Invalid/blank votes13,636–––
Total638,90310084+1
Registered voters/turnout[lower-alpha 1]675,30694.6––
Source: Singapore Elections
  1. Contested seats only; across all constituencies the number of registered voters was 2,036,923.

Officeholders

Speakers
  • Abdullah bin Tarmugi (the People's Action Party MP for East Coast GRC) was elected Speaker of the Parliament on 25 March 2002.

Leaders

House Leaders

Whips

References
  1. "Sessions of Parliament | Parliament Of Singapore". www.parliament.gov.sg. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
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