Singapore General Political Discussion and News

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Is there any evident foreign policy differences between the parties in Singapore?

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Can you tell us the demographic makeup of each party? Who do different ethnicities, nationalities, and religious groups vote for? What’s the class composition of each party?

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Can you tell us the demographic makeup of each party? Who do different ethnicities, nationalities, and religious groups vote for? What’s the class composition of each party?

oh god that's pretty sensitive information, pretty much anything regarding demographics is pretty hidden.

PAP: broad majorities of every race and ethnicity, fairly broad support but particularly strong among middle-class voters. remembr they got 60-70% of the vote giving them strong majorities among most groups. Ironically they tend to be more popular among females than Males. Dominates among established groups including civil servants, busniess owners and essential center-right counstieunces.

WP: original primary based on Hokkien speaker who felt their dialect had been marginalized in comparison to mandarin. Strong local base in Hougang with their leader Low Thia Kiang having strong appele among them helping the party survive the loss of it's original Leader J.B Jetryanm. Have now transitioned to a broader party with strong support among younger voters and ethenic minorities under it's new leader Pritam Singh

SDP: Primarly supported by the disaffected among society, one of the only ideological party so does have an upper-middle class component of ideological leftists/liberals who are attracted to the opposition but dislike the more grass-root PAP-lite WP.

Rest of the oppostion: Random people who just disaffected from the PAP, tend to skew male and lower-middle income and voters tend to be mainly Chinese even if the politician are more ethenicly diverse.

What about different religious identities?

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So what exactly is the SDP offering instead? What kind of candidates and policies are they offering in place?

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Isn’t the Workers Party to their Left in policy?

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So with some time after the election, has the PAP enacted any populist policies to shore up support? Have the opposition done any flexing?

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So what has happened since December 2022

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Arrest of government minister in anti-graft probe