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One of the early signs that not all may be well came midway in the campaign.
Clad in white, Mr Ng Chee Meng and Mr Amrin Amin went around Sengkang Central, waving and introducing themselves. Usually, residents obliged with a smile or a nod, even if hesitantly.
But there were some who gave the two People’s Action Party (PAP) candidates the cold shoulder, to the point of being outright unfriendly.
“I could tell from their interactions, from their body language, that they were a bit hostile,” said a party volunteer on residents that the candidates had approached.
Alarm bells rang. The PAP team – which also included Senior Minister of State for Transport and Health Lam Pin Min, 50, and lawyer Raymond Lye, 54 – redoubled its efforts.
On social media, there were photographs of Mr Ng, 51, a former defence chief, sprinting up and down Housing Board block corridors, trying to reach as many residents as possible in the remaining days of the campaign.
In the end, it was too little, too late. On Polling Day, Sengkang GRC emerged as the biggest upset of the 2020 General Election.
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