Singapore GE2020: A watershed election and new normal?

Singaporeans woke up on Saturday morning to a familiar headline - that the People's Action Party was back in government - but also to a new normal, of an entrenched opposition party in Parliament and a clear shift in what voters expect of politics in Singapore.

Even with the retirement of long-time opposition MP Low Thia Khiang ahead of the election, the party retained Aljunied GRC and Hougang with bigger margins of victory. But it also snared the newly-formed Sengkang GRC. The Leader of the Opposition is the leader of the largest minority party which is able and prepared to assume office, in the event the Government resigns.

But the WP is advocating a national minimum wage, saying it ensures a baseline level of income for all. Economist Jamus Lim, for example, holds multiple degrees from the likes of Harvard University and the London School of Economics. Dr Lim is a member of the WP's Sengkang GRC team. REJECTION OF NEGATIVE CAMPAIGNING With its overall vote share of 61.24 per cent, the PAP has seen an almost 9 percentage point drop from the 2015 General Election. The result is closer to its performance in 2011, when the mood on the ground was made sour by housing shortages and transport disruptions.

There was also the matter of police reports against WP's Ms Raeesah Khan, a member of the Sengkang GRC team, over remarks made in two Facebook posts in which the 26-year-old allegedly promoted"enmity between different groups on grounds of religion or race". At the Academia.sg webinar yesterday, NUS adjunct law professor Kevin Tan separately highlighted the use of Pofma against remarks made by Singapore Democratic Party chairman, Professor Paul Tambyah.

While Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat's team won East Coast GRC with just 53.41 per cent of the votes cast, Singapore Management University law don Eugene Tan notes that had the PAP not fielded Mr Heng there, the constituency may well have fallen to the WP.

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