Singapore's ruling party PAP to form government with national swing

Singapore's ruling People's Action Party (PAP) will form government with a national swing, according to the results of sample count by the Elections Department on Friday.

PAP led everywhere except Aljunied group representation constituency and Hougang simple member constituency, showed the sample count.

The sample count, which is made public for the first time, offers an early indication of the possible result for each of the 29 electoral divisions. The results were derived from a count of 100 ballot papers from each polling station within a constituency, after voting ends at 8 p.m. local time. There are 832 polling stations in the city state.

The Elections Department stressed that the sample count results are not final, but the preliminary results were found to have a confidence level of 95 percent, plus or minus 4 percentage points, reported by local media.

The ruling People's Action Party (PAP) was challenged in all available 89 parliamentary seats for the first time in the city state's history. The 89 seats were split into 16 group representation constituencies (GRCs), where the candidates from a contesting party is required to be fielded as a team, and 13 single member constituencies (SMCs).

The ruling People's Action Party took 81 of the 87 seats at 2011 general election with 60.14 percent of the popular votes, which is lower than the 66.6 percent in general election in 2006.
Source: XINHUA