Singapore:
Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s Folks’s Motion Get together (PAP) received the Singapore Common Election Saturday by a landslide, securing 87 of the 97 parliamentary seats, native media reported.
Mr Wong and the PAP had sought a brand new mandate from the overall election within the midst of uncertainties to the worldwide financial system attributable to the US commerce tariffs.
The PAP, Singapore’s oldest and largest political occasion, has dominated the city-state ever since independence in 1965.
About 2.6 million Singaporeans had been eligible to vote on Saturday for 92 contested seats because the PAP’s Group Illustration Constituency for Marine Parade-Braddell Heights had a walkover on nomination day on April 23.
This was Mr Wong’s first election as prime minister of the global-business targeted Singapore which now faces navigating via robust headwinds attributable to tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump.
Talking after the consequence for Marsiling-Yew Tee Group Illustration Constituency (GRC) was introduced, Wong mentioned the election was his first and a “humbling expertise”. He pledged to work onerous for the voters.
“We’re grateful to your robust mandate and… will honour the belief that you’ve got given to us by working even more durable for all of you,” mentioned the 52-year-old premier.
The Elections Division (ELD) mentioned Singaporeans solid their votes for 92 out of 97 parliamentary seats at 1,240 polling stations island-wide to resolve the long run politics of Singapore.
This was Singapore’s nineteenth election for the reason that first normal election in 1948 and 14th since its Independence in 1965.
Mr Wong, 52, was sworn-in final Could as the brand new prime minister in 20 years after Lee Hsien Loong stepped down after virtually twenty years.
There was vociferous campaigning by opposition political events, elevating points associated to excessive value of dwelling and housing in addition to growing presence of foreigners in virtually all sectors of the financial system within the manpower-short Singapore.
High PAP leaders had been seen balancing their election schedules over the past 9 days of campaigning since nominations closed on April 23 together with negotiating tariffs imposed by Singapore’s largest buying and selling companion US.
Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister and Commerce and Business Minister Gan Kim Yong had been negotiating along with his US counterparts on a ten per cent tariff imposed on imports from Singapore.
The PAP fielded candidates in all 92 constituencies, whereas its foremost rival, the Employees’ Get together (WP), contested 26 seats in eight constituencies.
The Progress Singapore Get together (PSP) fielded 13 candidates throughout six constituencies. Different events within the fray included the Singapore Folks’s Get together (SPP), Singapore Democratic Get together (SDP), Folks’s Energy Get together (PPP), Folks’s Alliance for Reform (PAR), Pink Dot United (RDU), Nationwide Solidarity Get together (NSP), Singapore United Get together (SUP), and Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA).
Prime Minister Wong had urged Singaporeans to vote responsibly as the worldwide economies are going via unprecedented challenges and led to uncertainties.
The finance-trade-export targeted metropolis state sits in the midst of US-China commerce battle, having historic bilateral financial and diplomatic relations with each the large markets, diplomatic sources mentioned.
Manufacturing exercise in Singapore fell into recession territory in April 2025 as tariffs introduced by US President Donald Trump triggered a wave of export-order deferments and cancellations.
The buying managers’ index (PMI), a barometer of the manufacturing sector’s well being, fell to 49.6 factors in April, down one level from 50.6 in March; readings above 50 point out progress whereas these beneath level to contraction.
“The contraction in Singapore’s manufacturing unit exercise snaps 19 straight months of enlargement,” reported The Straits Instances, citing a Singapore Institute of Buying and Supplies Administration (SIPMM) report on Friday.
In the meantime, the PAP had a walkover in a single constituency of 5 members of parliament on the shut of nomination day on April 23.
The PAP’s share of the favored vote slipped to a near-record low of 61 per cent in 2020 elections, down from almost 70 per cent in 2015 and though it stored 83 out of 93 parliamentary seats, the opposition gained floor with a file 10 seats. PTI GS OZ SCY NPK GSP GSP
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