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People's Action Party wins Singaporean election in landslide victory

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

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The results of the 2025 Singaporean general election.
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On Saturday, in a landslide victory, the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) won the 2025 Singaporean general election, claiming 65.57% of the national vote and 87 seats in the 97-seat Parliament. This marks the PAP's 16th successive election triumph since 1959.

The main opposition party, the Workers' Party (WP), took 14.99% of the vote — 50.04% in constituencies it contested in — and twelve seats, comprising ten directly elected seats with the addition of two seats accorded to the "best losers", bringing the total number of seats to 99.

The vote was the first significant electoral test for Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, who took over from current Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong on May 15, 2024. The electoral campaign lasted just nine days, among the world's shortest, followed by a Cooling-off Day, when no campaigning was allowed.

97 seats were originally up for grabs, up from the current 93, across 18 Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs) and 15 Single Member Constituencies (SMCs). However, in a shock development, the WP decided not to contest Marine Parade-Braddell Heights GRC as it had done in the past two elections, resulting in a walkover for the PAP, the first since 2011.

The PAP has held a supermajority in Parliament since 1959, the longest uninterrupted governing party among modern multiparty parliamentary democracies. In the current, outgoing parliament, the PAP holds a supermajority of 83 of 93 directly elected seats, with 11 additional seats allocated to the "best losers" and nominated members of parliament.

The results of the 2020 Singaporean general election.
Image: Seloloving.

The last election, held in 2020 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, saw the opposition making inroads into Parliament, with the WP securing the newly created Sengkang GRC.

The vote was held amid Singapore's 60th year of independence and global economic headwinds. Singapore was not spared the fallout from the imposition of the Trump tariffs, effective April 5, having been hit by the blanket minimum 10% rate on all U.S. imports.

Singapore is a flawed democracy per The Economist's Democracy Index.


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