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Some 2.63 million Singaporeans headed to the polls on Saturday in a general election that served as a defining test for Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s leadership, just less than a year after he took over from Lee Hsien Loong.
A total of 92 parliamentary seats were contested across 32 constituencies in the country’s 14th general election since independence after significant electoral boundary changes were made earlier.
Five seats in the Marine Parade group representation constituency (GRC) already fell into People’s Action Party (PAP) hands after the Workers’ Party (WP) made the shock move not to contest there, marking the first walkover in the city state since 2011.
Yet the ruling PAP on its campaign trail appeared to face strong opposition in the northeast from WP, and in the west from the Progress Singapore Party and Singapore Democratic Party.
All eyes had been on whether the opposition could expand its foothold in parliament and cause the PAP’s vote share to slip under 60 per cent for the first time since 1965, or if the PAP’s dominance could be shaken in the face of geopolitical uncertainty and a stronger appetite for diverse voices in parliament.
Reporting by Kimberly Lim and Jean Iau