WP's Lee wins Punggol East by-election
Ms Lee Li Lian of the Workers' Party has won the Punggol East by-election.
Returning Officer Yam Ah Mee announced the results at about 11pm on Saturday.
Ms Lee won 16,038 or 54.52 per cent of the valid votes, while Dr Koh Poh Koon of the People's Action Party received 12,856 or 43.71 per cent of the votes.
Reform Party's Kenneth Jeyaretnam took 353 or 1.20 per cent of the votes and Singapore Democratic Alliance's Desmond Lim had 168 or 0.57 of the votes.
Total number of votes cast was 29,832, with 417 rejected votes.
This was 94.26 per cent of the 31,649 registered electors in the Single Member Constituency.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong congratulated Ms Lee and the Workers' Party for winning the by-election.
"I respect the choice of Punggol East voters," he said in a statement.
Mr Lee said the PAP will continue to work to improve the lives of Singaporeans, and present its report card for voters to judge in the next general election.
He added that he intends to field Dr Koh again in a future election, so that he can be part of the PAP's team to serve Singapore.
RP's Jeyaretnam also congratulated the Workers' Party, saying that the by-election was mainly fought on local issues.
He said that irrespective of the results, the party "has taken the first step in mending the broken promise of all, which is the promise to build a democratic society."
Congratulations to Ms Lee Li Lian and WP. Congratulations also to the people of Punggol East, for not being intimidated by the draconian PAP.
3 comments:
This is a By Election. It may have turned out differently in a GE.
There is no inherent risk that PAP will not continue to be the ruling party, and hence a possibility of voters voting the opposition, know that the government in place will still be the PAP.
They want a voice in parliament. Let's see what kind of voice they will have in the person they elected.
Dont be too sure that the PAP will hold on to majority in Parliament after GE 2021 if PAP continues to tell we citizens how to suck eggs.
For once I am so happy that the elitist - generals and schollars - are put down. If they dont know what it is like to be rich-to-rags because of its pro-foreigners policy, then the doom will happen.
Anyway the day that Mother of PAP died 2 years ago, it ended once and for all the Lee domination of the PAP> From that day, PAP lives in the wilderness. PM Lee is not expert nor wise. This is the strat of his doom day.
I hope SM Lee will live to see the end of the PAP and his brand of leadership.
So? A win is a win. The more opposition MP the merrier!
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