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Singapore voters continue shift away from ruling party ― James Gomez: JAN 31 ― Electoral results from Singapore’...

JAN 31 ― Electoral results from Singapore’s most recent-by elections continue the electorates’ shift away from the republic’s long-ruling People’s Action Party, but the island’s opposition parties still remain disparate. On Saturday January 26, the Workers’ Party (WP) won the Punggol East by-election with 54.52 per cent of the valid votes, while People’s Action Party (PAP) polled 43.71 percent. The WP won the election with a vote swing of 13.5 per cent compared to its performance in the last general election in the same constituency when it polled only 41 per cent. The by-election held on Saturday at the electoral division of Punggol East is the second since the city-state’s last general elections held some twenty-one months earlier. Apart from the issue of the large vote swing against the PAP, the by-election also generated discussions on the merits of multi-party contest...

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