Singapore General Election 2020 Results
Pap chief and pm lee hsien loong says results show clear desire for diversity of voices south china morning post pap returns to power but opposition workers party wins.
Singapore general election 2020 results. This entry provides a summary of the election results. Polls for singapore s general election closed at 10pm after voting hours were extended for two hours to accommodate more voters. Get full analysis of how the political parties fare in the wards contested and their vote share compared to the last election.
Follow real time updates on singapore s 2020 general election results. Singapore prime minister lee hsien loong has secured a clear mandate with his ruling people s action party pap winning 83 of the 93 contested parliamentary seats in the. President halimah yacob dissolved parliament on 23 june 2020 on the advice of prime minister lee hsien loong it elected members of parliament to the 14th parliament of singapore since singapore s independence in 1965 using the first past the post electoral system.
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of the straits times on july 11 2020 with the headline 2020 general election. Singapore the vote tally for each constituency will be updated here as it is announced by returning officer tan meng dui. The ruling people s action party pap won 83 out of 93 seats in parliament and garnered 61 24 per cent of singaporeans votes in the 2020 singapore general elections.
Follow our live coverage of polling day here. Singapore with 2 65 million singaporean voters set to head to the polls on friday july 10 how will the hotly contested general election billed as the most important in its history play out. The 2020 singaporean general election was a general election held in singapore on 10 july 2020.
The people s action party pap has clinched 61 24 per cent of the votes in this year s general election but a swing to the opposition saw the workers party wp make inroads into.