11th Parliament of Singapore

The 11th Parliament of Singapore was the previous Parliament of Singapore. The first session commenced on 2 November 2006 and was prorogued on 13 April 2009. The second session commence from 18 May 2009 and was dissolved on 19 April 2011.[1] The membership was set by the 2006 Singapore General Election on 7 May 2006, and it has changed twice due to the deaths of Jurong GRC MP Dr Ong Chit Chung in 2008, and Ang Mo Kio GRC MP Balaji Sadasivan who was also the Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.

11th Parliament of Singapore
majority parliament
2 November 2006 – 19 April 2011
House
Seating arrangements of the House
Speaker of Parliament
Prime
Minister
Leader
of the
Opposition
  • Low Thia Kiang
    2 November 2006 – 19 April 2011
Session(s)
1st Session
2 November 2006 – 13 April 2009
2nd Session
18 May 2009 – 19 April 2011
Cabinet(s)
11th Cabinet
Lee Hsien Loong
7 May 2006 – 19 April 2011
Parliamentarians
ElectedNCMPNominated
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The 11th Parliament is controlled by a People's Action Party majority, led by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and members of the cabinet, which assumed power on 7 May 2006. The Opposition is led by the Secretary General of the Worker's Party of Singapore, Mr Low Thia Kiang. The Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore is Abdullah bin Tarmugi, of the People's Action Party. He was re-elected as the Speaker of the House for the 11th Parliament on 2 November 2006.

Result of the Singapore General Election, 2006
Party Votes % Seats +/–
People's Action Party748,13066.6820
Workers' Party183,57816.310
Singapore Democratic Alliance145,62813.010
Singapore Democratic Party45,9374.100
Invalid/blank votes26,730–––
Total1,150,003100840
Registered voters/turnout[lower-alpha 1]1,223,44294.0––
Source: Singapore Elections
  1. Contested seats only; across all constituencies the number of registered voters was 2,159,721.

The Worker's Party, being the best performing opposition party with 16.34 percent of the Popular vote, was awarded a Non-Constituency Member of Parliament Seat in accordance with the Constitution. The NCMP seat was eventually taken up by Sylvia Lim, the chairperson of the Worker's Party.

Officeholders

Speakers
  • Abdullah bin Tarmugi (the People's Action Party MP for East Coast GRC) was re-elected Speaker of the Parliament on 2 November 2006. He was first elected as Speaker during the first sitting of the 10th Parliament of Singapore on the 25 March 2002.

Leaders

House Leaders

Whips

References
  1. "Sessions of Parliament". Archived from the original on 25 June 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
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