Legislative Seats - Singapore's Ruling Party Elected Again

Singapore voters about to the particular polls

SINGAPORE, May 8 (UPI) Sinapore's ruling People's Action Party took 81 involving 87 legislative chairs inside the national selection nonetheless it has the vote share dropped, public information proved Sunday.

The party's promote in the favorite vote rejected to 60.1 per cent from 66.6 percentage from the 2006 election, The Straits Times reported.

The Workers' Party took the residual five seats, the most actually with regard to an others group, as well as Foreign Minister George Yeo lost his seat.

The state's founder, 87-year-old Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, claimed in the triumph celebration that newer iteration "does not don't forget coming from whence most of us came."

"Do not really assume that the Singapore airline ticket might be on autopilot," he added. "We will come upon a storm, we will run into a myriad of emergencies in addition to we must have excellent pilots about board."

Asked about the PAP's heading downward vote, Lee said: "I've furthermore discovered of which in addition to I'm certain that prime minister in addition to his team will you've got carefully along with review the issues and also change our own policies."

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the actual PAP will probably be "soul-searching and studying" precisely how best in order to conform to some sort of "new electorate."