Originally posted by Ee Hoe Hean Club:
The results of this elections makes no sense.
Some parts of the results make sense but most of them need to be further analyzed:
1) PAP rebounded back to their 2006 level which was 66.6% after adjusting for 3.54% in new citizens and deducting it from 69.9% in 2015. Possibly one of the reasons is due to stabalizing of housing prices which saw only up to 5% increase in the 4-year stretch as opposed to the huge increase from 2006 to 2011. So naturally more younger people voted for PAP.
2) Png Eng Huats result of 57.69% isn't too far away from the 62.08% result he got in 2012 after you factor in the 3.54% adjustment losing just additional 0.85% of the votes.
3) Aljunied GRC's result of 50.95% isn't too far away from the 54.72% 2011 results after factoring in the 3.54% adjustments losing just additional 0.23% of the votes.
4) SPP lost substantial amount of votes probably because they did not have Mandarin broadcasts and thus failed to win the votes from Chinese speaking families.
5) NSP lost substantial amount of votes because they were hit by a series of resignations by its good members including Goh Meng Seng, Tony Tan, Hazel Poa, Jeneatte, Nicole Seah and Tan Lam Siong as well as the scandal of President Sebastian Teo. Currently there is only Lim Tean is of equivalent appeal.
6) Goh Meng Seng led PPP performed badly because they did not have enough star politicians there and they did not qualify for political broadcasts.
7) SingFirst performed badly because it is the first time this new party is contesting in those districts and they are tough districts where people are happy (because of good asset value) or led by very strong minister.
8) SDA performed as about the same as they did in 2011 (30.06%) after you factor in the 3.54% adjustment to the 27.08% result they received. However they slided by around 5% in Pasir-Ris Punggol after you factor in the 3.54%
9) Keneath Jayaratnam led Reform Party's bad result is probably attributed to voters' perception of their objectives as KJ insisted on going against WP in the 2013 by-election where he received only slightly more than 1% of the votes.
10) SDP's real slide in this election is only 36.76-3.54-31.23=1.99%. This is probably due to the resignation of all members of it's 2011 A-team.
11) Similarly, WP is very closed to its previous results this election in Nee Soon, Sengkang West, Fengshan and Jalan Besar after you factor in the 3.54%.
As for WP's bad performance in East Coast and Marine Parade, I really have no idea.
Again these are just my personal opinions. Ignore them if you disagree.