11th Parliament of Singapore

11th Parliament of Singapore
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Seating arrangement of the 11th Parliament of Singapore
Overview
Legislative body	Parliament of Singapore
Meeting place	Parliament House
Term	2 November 2006 – 19 April 2011
Election	6 May 2006
Government	People's Action Party
Opposition	Workers' Party Singapore Democratic Alliance
Parliament of Singapore
82 2 1 9
Members	94
Speaker	Abdullah Tarmugi
Leader of the House	Wong Kan Seng (until 2007) Mah Bow Tan (from 2007)
Prime Minister	Lee Hsien Loong
Leader of the Opposition	Low Thia Khiang
Party control	PAP supermajority
Sessions
1st 2 November 2006 – 13 April 2009 2nd 18 May 2009 – 19 April 2011

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.

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.

• Speaker: Abdullah Tarmugi (PAP)
• Deputy Speaker:
  • Indranee Rajah (PAP), from 8 November 2006
  • Matthias Yao (PAP), from 8 November 2006

• Prime Minister: Lee Hsien Loong (PAP)
• Leader of the Opposition: Low Thia Khiang (WP)

• Leader of the House:
  • Wong Kan Seng (PAP), until 31 March 2007
  • Mah Bow Tan (PAP), from 1 April 2007
• Deputy Leader of the House:
  • Mah Bow Tan (PAP), until 31 March 2007
  • Ng Eng Hen (PAP), from 1 April 2007

• Party Whip of the People's Action Party:
  • Lee Boon Yang, until 31 March 2007
  • Lim Swee Say, from 1 April 2007
• Deputy Party Whip of the People's Action Party:
  • Inderjit Singh
  • Lim Swee Say, until 30 May 2007
  • Amy Khor, from 1 April 2007

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.

• Gautam Banerjee, from 18 January 2007 until 17 July 2009
• Cham Hui Fong, from 18 January 2007 until 17 July 2009
• Edwin Khew Teck Fook, from 18 January 2007 until 17 July 2009
• Loo Choon Yong, from 18 January 2007 until 17 July 2009
• Kalyani K. Mehta, from 18 January 2007 until 17 July 2009
• Eunice Elizabeth Olsen, from 18 January 2007 until 17 July 2009
• Jessie Phua, from 18 January 2007 until 17 July 2009
• Siew Kum Hong, from 18 January 2007 until 17 July 2009
• Thio Li-ann, from 18 January 2007 until 17 July 2009
• Calvin Cheng, from 18 July 2009
• Terry Lee Kok Hua, from 18 July 2009
• Viswa Sadasivan, from 18 July 2009
• Mildred Tan-Sim Beng Mei, from 18 July 2009
• Paulin Tay Straughan, from 18 July 2009
• Teo Siong Seng, from 18 July 2009
• Laurence Wee Yoke Thong, from 18 July 2009
• Audrey Wong Wai Yen, from 18 July 2009
• Joscelin Yeo, from 18 July 2009