GE2015: The pendulum can swing back
GE2015 Forget about blaming new citizen voters for the near 10 point swing in the popular vote to the PAP. In the 4 years between 2011 and 2014, there were less than 80,000 new citizens of whom 40% were below voting age. The 300,000 new voters taken as evidence of the effect of new citizens are really due to a demographic bulge...
The ‘unexpected’ landslide victory of the PAP
(Photo: AFP) A result that surprised and puzzled many analysts, but here's why! Many observers have attributed last night's less-than-expected big PAP turnaround in its aggregated popular vote from 60.1 to 69.9%, a sudden rise of 9.8%, to a variety of reasons: (1) Singaporeans now fully understand the significance of elections...
PAP does not have a ‘strong mandate’
Does he really have a strong mandate? There appears to be a "swing" towards PAP in votes compared to the last election in 2011. Some Singaporeans are disappointed because the outcome seems to contradict the evidence on the ground. The turnouts for opposition rallies, especially those of the WP, were much bigger than the last...
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