2011 GENERAL ELECTION DATE -- 7 May 11
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Originally posted by Junyang700:
LOL..... We will know it on elections day! Haha...
I don't believe there are so many unhappy voters as you said. When it is time to get the red packet, they will be happy to vote for you-know-who.
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Originally posted by kengkia:
yeah plus those old folks have only MSM as their source of info and entertainment, makes it worse, but they will eventually know en masse when their children being replaced by FTs for years to come if PAP is unchecked should they win 2/3 majority this time round, and i afraid it'd be too late by then.
Agree!
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In case any one too lazy to see my updated starting posted i shall repost it here..
Election has now been scheduled for sometime 11th December 2010 to 18th December 2010 if there are no further complications and unforeseen circumstances.
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Originally posted by tranquilice:
I don't believe there are so many unhappy voters as you said. When it is time to get the red packet, they will be happy to vote for you-know-who.Updated - those in their 20s to 60 without a job... lost their job.... and those whose spouse left them.... those who feel the opposition is better... hardcore opposers....
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Originally posted by kengkia:
In case any one too lazy to see my updated starting posted i shall repost it here..
Election has now been scheduled for sometime 11th December 2010 to 18th December 2010 if there are no further complications and unforeseen circumstances.
Monday public holiday for voting - solves Monday blues!
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If the election department does not release the electoral boundary report by end of next month, we can forget about having an election in Dec.
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Originally posted by Junyang700:
Monday public holiday for voting - solves Monday blues!
Voting day is usually on a Saturday. -
it's a best time to hold an election utilising the fact of KGC's death, pulling sympathy votes
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Originally posted by kengkia:
it's a best time to hold an election utilising the fact of KGC's death, pulling sympathy votes
Agree, better hold it soon than to wait longer, in case LKY die next year, pulling even more sympathy votes. -
Originally posted by tranquilice:
Agree, better hold it soon than to wait longer, in case LKY die next year, pulling even more sympathy votes. -
Originally posted by Clivebenss:
dun keep on
leh. reinstate my mod status... -
Originally posted by kengkia:
dun keep on
leh. reinstate my mod status...I not fling leh.
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Originally posted by tranquilice:
Voting day is usually on a Saturday.Yes and after voting there will be live that evening too where counting of votes begin and reports will be read out.
So, no public holiday liao.
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How about cooling day supposing it held on Sat?
Should be Friday right? Hope there will be holiday that day.
And if so, then that will be good for everybody.
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Originally posted by likeyou:
How about cooling day supposing it held on Sat?
Should be Friday right? Hope there will be holiday that day.
And if so, then that will be good for everybody.
They didn't announce it. -
Thanks for your information.
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Judging by the completing renovation works done at kovan hawker centre and wet market, my gut feeling now is that the election might come as soon as December 2010 as opposed to April which I first reckoned.
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Originally posted by ditzy:
Judging by the completing renovation works done at kovan hawker centre and wet market, my gut feeling now is that the election might come as soon as December 2010 as opposed to April which I first reckoned.
Why PAP must time everything for elections wayang?
So manipulative.
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Originally posted by Vote PAP OUT to Save SG:
Why PAP must time everything for elections wayang?
So manipulative.
No, I only see it as mdm phua's way of garnering votes for her area in charge, like how lily neo likes to hang out with old folks.
Thanks to mdm phua, half of all the 25 years plus hawkers that I know used to be there have been relocated to godknowswhere.
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WITH election buzz rising, Singapore’s talking point these days centres around two questions: What will the future be like without Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew?
Will the young generation, whose voting strength is increasing, continue to support the People’s Action Party (PAP) under its present strategies without the founding leader?
An indication may come in the next few months from a benchmark general election possibly without the participation of the 87-year-old Lee for the first time in 51 years.
Still in grief over the recent passing of his wife, Lee is also weakened by a chest infection after a fall in Moscow. He is likely to recover but will be, in his own words, “a different man” without her.
Under the circumstances, Lee may decide to call it quits when the PAP announces its candidates.
“No one can tell for sure,” said a party insider.
“But he has already done so much for the country. He has often said he’ll step down if health forbids him from contributing. Regretfully, I think the time has come.”
If it happens, history will start a new chapter after 51 years of Lee’s powerful presence that helped to shape today’s Singapore.
It will also, for better or worse, lead to major changes after a period of continuity.
The result of the coming polls – as is Singapore’s future – will largely be decided by the younger generation of both leaders and the electorate.
Sensing a turning point, but not sure exactly how the longer term future will turn out, Singaporeans are awaiting the polls with some anxiety.
No date has been announced, but it is widely expected to take place within the next six months. Foreign Minister George Yeo has already told party activists to prepare for one at the year-end or early 2011.
In 2006, the PAP won 82 seats on 66.6% popular votes while the opposition got only two seats, but won one-third of the votes.
Some 47% of the seats were uncontested because there were no opposition candidates, resulting in many PAP MPs winning seats by walkovers.
Critics attribute it to a fear of Lee and his history of detaining or suing his political foes. The Government, however, attributes it to the poor performance of a fractious opposition.
Things will dramatically change in a post-Lee Singapore.
He himself had years ago predicted that after he quits, more and better quality Singaporeans would join the opposition to take on the PAP.
He also said that his successors would have no problem winning the next two elections (until 2016-17), but hinted that they could be voted out if they failed to measure up to rising expectations.
At the moment, the focus is on the ruling party’s self renewal, like whether Lee and who among the older staunch Cabinet supporters will leave to make way for new blood.
If it follows tradition, a quarter of its current 82 MPs will be replaced by younger men and women.
Even without Lee or the fear factor, the ruling party as the incumbent will still enjoy overwhelming odds over its fledgling rivals, including the power to change rules and the support of a compliant press.
Above all, the party is believed to retain broad support from older, conservative Singaporeans (especially housewives), the wealthy, the vast bureaucracy and upper middle class, who feel “safe” under PAP rule.
Few in this group appear keen to opt for the unknown.
But the same cannot be said of the lower income group, struggling wage earners and young professionals who have suffered from the foreign influx.
“There are many jobless or underemployed people out there who have become despondent and bitter,” one writer opined.
“And young professionals are worried at all times that ‘cheaper’ foreigners will replace them or retard their pay rise.”
Summing up this feeling was a recent letter “Linda” posted on the Internet, which said: “My family members were staunch supporters of PAP and Lee Kuan Yew who had improved most Singaporeans’ standard of living through hard work and education.
“But during these past 10 years, I have seen one by one, my siblings, relatives and friends, become jobless. A qualified accountant was told to apply for a job as chambermaid when she approached (an official job help body).”
Linda said she had not believed this could happen, until the past few years, “when I realised that so many foreigners were taking up most of the office jobs, and true-blue Singaporeans were being displaced”.
“Sorry Mr Lee and PAP, I have now second thoughts about you. But thanks for the good years some of my generation had gone through – but not now for my children,” she concluded.
Rising discontent will make the approaching election one of the hardest to confidently predict by using past yardsticks.
In the wake of large-scale immigration, which was recently cut down, Singapore is now bigger, and divided so much that it is difficult to stereotype its people.
Lee’s old consensus society has disappeared long before him.
Despite this, Lee will leave behind a country that largely works – an efficient, purposeful civil service and a strong infrastructure. These will probably allow the PAP to retain a mandate for a while with or without Lee.
But with the ground souring, his party will likely lose popularity to a rising, more credible opposition both in votes and the number of seats.
The coming polls will be crucial because it will show how the young will vote and how political upstarts, both in the PAP and in the opposition, will fare when things get hot.
They could throw up a future prime minister.
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Originally posted by tranquilice:
They could throw up a future prime minister.
But with all these old fuckers above him, how independent can the "prime minister" be?
More like a puppet.
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i wont vote for pro foreigners.
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Looking back at the 2006 election.
Convene of Electoral Boundaries Review Committee: Nov 2005 (http://singaporeelection.blogspot.com/2006/02/election-report-on-electoral.html)
Release of Electoral Boundaries Review Report: March 2006 (http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2006/yax-553.htm)
Dissolve Parliament: 20 April 2006
Polling Day: 06 May 2006
Based on the above, generally it takes a period of 5 to 6 months from the convening of the committee to polling day. The coming election will most likely be held in April 2011 or May 2011.
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could be 1st Jan 2011.