Election To Parliament
In 1981, at a by-election in Anson, Jeyaretnam defeated PAP candidate Pang Kim Hin to become Singapore's first opposition Member of Parliament (MP). Jeyaretnam won 7,012 votes (51.9%) to Pang's 6,359 (47.1%), with a third candidate taking 131 votes (1.0%).
Jeyaretnam was re-elected as the constituency's MP at the 1984 general election, in which he defeated the PAP's Ng Pock Too by 9,909 votes (56.8%) to 7,533 (43.2%). He was one of two opposition MPs elected to Parliament at the 1984 general election (the other being the leader of the Singapore Democratic Party, Chiam See Tong).
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