2nd Parliament of Singapore
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Composition at the start of the 2nd Parliament of Singapore | |||||
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| Legislative body | Parliament of Singapore | ||||
| Meeting place | Old Parliament House | ||||
| Term | 6 May 1968 – 16 August 1972 (4 years, 3 months and 10 days) | ||||
| Election | 13 April 1968 | ||||
| Government | People's Action Party | ||||
| Parliament of Singapore | |||||
| Members | 58 | ||||
| Speaker | Punch Coomaraswamy (until 1970) Yeoh Ghim Seng (from 1970) | ||||
| Leader of the House | E. W. Barker | ||||
| Prime Minister | Lee Kuan Yew | ||||
| Party control | PAP supermajority | ||||
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The 2nd Parliament of Singapore was a meeting of the Parliament of Singapore. Its first session commenced on 6 May 1968 and was prorogued on 14 April 1971. It commenced its second session on 21 July 1971 and was dissolved on 16 August 1972.
The members of the 2nd Parliament were elected in the 1968 general election. Parliament was controlled by a People's Action Party majority, led by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and his Cabinet. During the first session, Punch Coomaraswamy handed over the speakership to Dr Yeoh Ghim Seng.
The Second Parliament saw the resignations of five MPs on 30 March 1970, which precipitated a series of two by-elections that year. The resignation of Chan Choy Siong left the Parliament without any female MPs for the next 14 years until its reappearance in 1984.