Editing People's Action Party (section)

===Post-independence, 1965 to present===
[[File:People's Action Party general election rally, Tampines Stadium, Singapore - 20110505-04.jpg|thumb|240px|A PAP election rally at [[Tampines Stadium]]]]
The PAP has held an overwhelming majority of seats in the [[Parliament of Singapore]] since 1966, when the opposition Barisan Sosialis (Socialist Front) resigned from Parliament after winning 13 seats following the [[1963 Singaporean general election|1963 general election]], which took place months after a number of their leaders had been arrested in [[Operation Coldstore]] based on accusations of being communists affliated with the [[Communist Party of Malaya]] (CPM).<ref name="comet" />

It subsequently achieved a monopoly in an expanding parliament (winning every parliamentary seat) for the next four elections ([[1968 Singaporean general election|1968]], [[1972 Singaporean general election|1972]], [[1976 Singaporean general election|1976]] and [[1980 Singaporean general election|1980]]). Opposition parties returned to the legislature at a [[1981 Anson by-election|1981 by-election]]. The [[1984 Singaporean general election|1984 general election]] was the first election in 21 years in which opposition parties won seats. From then until [[2006 Singaporean general election|2006]], the PAP faced four opposition MPs at most. Opposition parties did not win more than four parliamentary seats from 1984 until [[2011 Singaporean general election|2011]] when the [[The Workers' Party (Singapore)|Workers' Party]] (WP) won six seats and took away a [[Group Representation Constituency]] (GRC) for the first time for any opposition party, as well as until [[2020 Singaporean general election|2020]] by which an opposition party had won more than one GRC, which was also achieved by the WP.

Even so, the PAP still holds a [[supermajority]] in the legislature, to the point that Singapore is effectively a [[dominant party system]] similar to Japan's [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|Liberal Democratic Party]] (LDP) rule of the country.<ref>{{cite news |title=How the LDP dominates Japan's politics |url=https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2021/10/28/how-the-ldp-dominates-japans-politics |newspaper=The Economist |access-date=11 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211101154455/https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2021/10/28/how-the-ldp-dominates-japans-politics |archive-date=1 November 2021 |date=28 October 2021}}</ref> With its supermajority, the PAP has always had the ability to amend the [[Constitution of Singapore]] at will, including the introduction of multi-member constituencies under the GRC system (in 1988) or the [[Nominated Member of Parliament]] (NMPs) scheme (in 1990), which has helped strengthened the government's dominance and control of Parliament.<ref name="Tan2012">{{cite journal|last1=Tan|first1=Kenneth Paul|title=The Ideology of Pragmatism: Neo-liberal Globalisation and Political Authoritarianism in Singapore|journal=Journal of Contemporary Asia|date= 2012|volume=42|issue=1|pages=67–92|doi=10.1080/00472336.2012.634644|s2cid=56236985}}</ref>