Original sentence: With 39 seats after two by-election defeats and two defections to UPP, PAP expelled 13 of its Assembly Members from the party a week after they voted against the PAP government in a no-confidence motion on 20 July 1961, leaving PAP hanging onto a slim one-seat majority- with 26 PAP MPs to the opposition's 25
Edited sentence: With 39 seats after two by-election defeats and two defections to UPP, PAP expelled 13 of its Assembly Members from the party a week after they mutinied in a no-confidence motion on 20 July 1961 and was left hanging onto a slim one-seat majority- with 26 PAP MPs to the opposition's 25