
Ex-ISD Director: Hougang’s indomitable spirits are alive and will spread to other constituencies
Even long before the Hougang by-election was called, it was a foregone conclusion that the PAP would be defeated and could be by a bigger margin than in the General Election (GE) in May 2011. And so the PAP candidate Desmond Choo went into the fray as something of an underdog. He had some of the PAP big guns, prominent among...

Singapore’s PAP Loses By-Election in Failure to Recover Support
(Bloomberg, 27 May) - Singapore’s ruling party lost a by- election in the opposition-controlled northeastern Hougang district, failing to prove it can recoup support after winning last year’s national vote with the smallest ever margin. Png Eng Huat, a 50-year-old businessman from the Workers’ Party, yesterday defeated...

Hougang’s residents continue to resist PAP’s “carrots”
Despite the strong efforts put up by PAP's candidate Desmond Choo in "dishing out carrots" to Hougang's residents, he could only manage to obtain a vote swing of 2.7%. In GE last year, he obtained 35.2%. In today's (26 May) by-election result, he managed to improve by 2.7% to reach 37.9%. Since Mr Yaw Shin Leong was expelled...
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