Samples of voting in nine of the 32 constituencies being contested showed the PAP had won in all of the aces. The vote count was ongoing and more sample counts were being released by the election commission. read more
Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s People’s Action Party (PAP) won the Singapore general election Saturday by a landslide, securing 87 of the 97 parliamentary seats, local media reported.
Wong and the PAP sought a new mandate from the general election in the face of uncertainties in the global economy caused by US trade tariffs.
The PAP, Singapore’s oldest and largest political party has ruled the city-state since independence in 1965.
About 2.6 million Singaporeans were eligible to vote on Saturday for 92 contested seats as the PAP’s Group Representation Constituency for Marine Parade-Braddell Heights had a walkover on nomination day on April 23.
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