SINGAPORE: PRIME MINISTER LEE KUAN YEW CASTS VOTE AS GOVERNMENT SWEEPS BACK TO POWER IN GENERAL ELECTION

Record ID: 328558

  • Title: SINGAPORE: PRIME MINISTER LEE KUAN YEW CASTS VOTE AS GOVERNMENT SWEEPS BACK TO POWER IN GENERAL ELECTION
  • Date: 24th December 1976
  • Summary: 1. SV BLIND MAN BEING LED TO POLLING BOOTH 2 ft 2. SV OLD LADY BEING ASSISTED FROM TRISHAW AND LED TO POLLING BOOTH 6 ft 3. SV PEOPLE WALKING TO POLLING BOOTH 8 ft 4. SV PRIME MINISTER, MR. LEE KUAN YEW, WALING TO POLLING BOOTH AND SHAKING HANDS WITH SUPPORTERS (3 SHOTS) 20 ft 5. CU SIGN POINTING WAY TO POLLING STATION 21 ft 6. SV MR. LEE REGISTERING AND VOTING (3 SHOTS) 30 ft 7. SV MRS. LEE VOTING 32 ft Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 8th January 1977 12:00
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  • Location: SINGAPORE
  • Country: Singapore
  • Reuters ID: LVAEC6EJ183SMPX7ZKMMN63KZP2M
  • Story Text: Large queues formed up outside polling booths throughout Singapore for the island republic's fifth successive general election. Even the old and disabled turned out to vote.

    By the end of the day the ruling People's Action Party, led by Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, had captured every seat in the sixty nine member Singapore Parliament. The Party campaigned on its record of turning the small city-state into one of the most prosperous areas in Asia.

    During the election campaign Mr. Lee claimed that the real opposition to his government's policies came not from the opposition parties but from what he termed the, "communist underground." In a victory statement, the Prime Minister said that between ten and fifteen percent of those who voted against the government only did so because they were opposed to anything other than communist rule.
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