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Singapores ruling party won another general election but its support fell to a near record low by sugam pokharel and nectar gan cnn updated 343 am et sat july 11 2020.

Election night victory speech obama 2008 analysis. The 2020 singaporean general election was a general election held in singapore on 10 july 2020. General elections in singapore must be held within three months after five years have elapsed from the date of the first sitting of a particular parliament of singaporehowever in most cases parliament is dissolved and a general election called at the behest of the prime minister before the five year period elapses. Candidate nomination occurred on 30 june 2020 followed by a nine day election campaign.

While that campaigning has just begun a survey of the social media horse race so far finds that while singapores long ruling party continues to enjoy the largest audience opposition parties are turning more digital heads and making inroads with content. Ballot boxes being emptied at a counting centre after polls closed in singapores general election on jul 10 2020. It elected members of parliament to the 14th parliament of singapore since singapores independence in 1965 using the first past the post electoral system.

The number of constituencies or electoral divisions is not permanently fixed. This election was the 18th general election in. In the 2015 general election the peoples action party pap maintained their majority in the parliament winning 695 of the vote and 83 seats in the parliament while the workers party of singapore won 125 of the vote and 6 seats.

Voting was mandatory for all singaporeans who were aged 21 or above as of 1 march 2020. Election results at a glance. The heat is on for singapores political parties steaming ahead with campaigns largely taking place online due to the covid 19 pandemic.

Singapores ruling peoples action party pap has retained power in fridays general election but with a reduced majority final results show. Anne marie lim 10 jul 2020 0640am updated. 11 jul 2020 0417am.

03 nov 2020 system maintenance message system maintenance will be carried out on 8 nov 2020 sun 12 am to 8 am. The official website of the elections department singapore. Singapore election opposition wins record 10 seats but voters bank on familiar team to fight covid dylan loh nikkei staff writer july 11 2020 0405 jst updated on july 11 2020 0645 jst singapore.