Singaporeans’ Tricky Exercise in Tactical Voting

A resident holds a PAP campaign leaflet of East Coast Group Representation Constituency, 3 July 2020 (Ore Huiying/Getty Images)

Singaporeans will go to the polls on 10 July, after a characteristically speedy campaigning period of nine days, along with a “cooling-off day” on which electioneering is banned.

Unlike most elections elsewhere, a general election in Singapore isn’t about choosing between different political parties vying to form the government. Instead, it’s a question of how complete the dominance over parliament the People’s Action Party (PAP) – in power since 1959 – will have.

Kirsten Han writes for The Interpreter.

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