The 07 August 1967 General Elections were held to determine the nation's support for independence from the British.
In the afternoon of the election day fighting broke out between Muslims against Creoles and Chinese in Constituency No.
Mohamed's Muslim supporters of CAM clashed against Ah Chuen's Chinese and Duval's Creoles of PMSD.
[2] The Police Riot Unit (PRU) and Special Mobile Force (SMF) had to intervene and tear gas was used to bring the crowds under control.
For 5 months leading to the August 1967 elections the Labour government had boosted the number of relief workers by more than 60% (from 19,290 to 30,887).