Punggol-East By-election 2013

Another year, another by-election. This time it was a weird echo of the previous Hougang by-election, as the MP Michael Palmer stepped down due to an extra-marital affair. Results also favoured the same party, with Lee Li Lian of the Workers' Party winning 16,038 or 54.52% of the valid votes, while Dr Koh Poh Koon of the People's Action Party received 12,856 or 43.71% of the votes. Reform Party's Kenneth Jeyaretnam and Singapore Democratic Alliance's Desmond Lim did not fare as well, taking 353 (1.20%) and 168 (0.57%) of the votes respectively. Of note, there were more rejected votes (417 or 1.39%) than what each losing opposition candidate had.

Voter turnout of 29,832 was lower than that of the 2011 election, but still gave the Workers' Party a huge 13% vote swing.

Hougang By-election 2012

Results of the Hougang By-election 2012 have been announced. Png Eng Huat of the Workers' Party recorded a win over Desmond Choo of the People's Action Party, getting 13,447 votes (62.09%) against 8,210 votes (37.91%). Interestingly, PAP only gained an additional 145 votes, given that Hougang's electorate actually shrunk from 23,176 registered voters in 2011 to 21,657 in 2012.

Results of the 2011 elections in the map are slightly outdated since overseas results were not yet included. Might change it if I feel inclined.

Voting Results

Well, the Singapore General Election 2011 has come to a close, with most polling results final, save for the overseas votes. Sadly as expected, it turned out to be a whitewash for PAP, except for Hougang SMC and a historic Aljunied GRC win going to the Workers' Party. The map of constituencies have been updated to show the winner of each.

There's also a bit more visual analysis of the polls. I wish I could do more, but most of the data such as the results for individual precincts in the GRCs are pretty closely guarded and not widely released to the public. Further intensity mapping shows where the marginal seats are (blue as safest and red as most closely contested), as well as the voter turnout for each precinct (deepest blue as highest % turnout). Joo Chiat SMC had the lowest voter turnout at 87%, which is especially disappointing since a significant difference to the final results could have been made had the extra 2000 voters showed up at the polls.

Interestingly the most number of spoilt votes come from PAP's Ang Mo Kio GRC. Could this indicate a sign of unhappiness with both teams?

Singapore Rally Sites

Ok, rally sites have been published. If you want to know where the Singapore rally sites are, and what's being held, try out the new map. The red markers indicate active rallies that will be held for the current day or the day after. It's funny to note that some constituencies just don't have a big enough areas/fields to hold rallies, so they end up being held in neighbouring constituencies (see Aljunied and Radin Mas among others). I hope the loading time hasn't slowed down after all these updates.

Close of Nomination

After an exciting couple of hours, with form mixups, disqualifications and objections galore, the party candidates have finally been confirmed after being offically nominated. Unfortunately, not all seats will be contested, and PAP wins Tanjong Pagar GRC through a walkover.

Check out the new updated map, an all-in-one stop to look up your Singapore constituency (GRC/SMC) and candidates.

Next update will be about the rally sites once they are announced.

Updated Links

Looks like a big uproar since the dissolution of Parliament. As more and more candidates are being introduced, knowing who's running in your constituency is not enough. We need to know who our candidates are too.

To be as unbiased and non-partisan as possible, I'm linking to candidates' official websites where present (even if a lot of them are Facebook pages). PAP's GE website does provide quite a bit of background information on their candidates, but rather annoyingly they failed to disable the auto-playing of video.

Also, thanks to everybody who facebooked, tweeted, mailed or posted this map around. Information is key. No one should go to the polls without knowing what and whom they're voting for.

Candidate Updates

Worked a little too long on this update than I would have liked, since I still can't find the source of the occasional bug. But since the good outweighs the bad, released it shall be. Search for your address and have a look at the parties and candidates contesting your local constituency.