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The Singapore Democratic Party’s (SDP) strategy of focusing its firepower on single seats failed to bear fruit last night, as the party lost in all five constituencies it contested – even as a nationwide swing towards opposition parties helped raise vote shares.
The party’s top two leaders – secretary-general Chee Soon Juan and chairman Paul Tambyah – both improved on their party’s performances in Bukit Batok and Bukit Panjang, but neither did well enough to secure a Non-Constituency MP (NCMP) seat as one of the best-performing losers. Professor Tambyah was the party’s best performer with 46.26 per cent of the votes in Bukit Panjang.
The party’s candidates in Holland-Bukit Timah GRC, Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC and Yuhua SMC all received less than 40 per cent of the votes.
The results mean the SDP has been usurped by the Progress Singapore Party (PSP) in the opposition party pecking order. While the Workers’ Party will have 10 MPs, the year-old PSP, led by Dr Tan Cheng Bock, looks set to take two NCMP seats for its narrow loss in West Coast GRC.
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