2011 General Election: Difference between revisions

This election also marked the first and the only three-cornered fight since 2001 in Punggol East SMC before it increased to four-cornered fight on a by-election held two years later.

The election was described as a '''watershed''' in various forms by various parties. Some of the reasons why it was thus dubbed are:

Both losing ministers in Aljunied GRC, [https://the-singapore-lgbt-encyclopaedia.fandom.com/wiki/George_Yeo George Yeo] and Minister in the Prime Minister's Office [https://the-singapore-lgbt-encyclopaedia.fandom.com/wiki/Lim_Hwee_Hua Lim Hwee Hua], announced their retirements from politics in separate news conferences given in the days after the election.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.straitstimes.com/GeneralElection/News/Story/STIStory_666950.html|title=George Yeo exiting politics, will not run for Presidency|last=Li|first=Xueying|date=11 May 2011|work=Straits Times|accessdate=13 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110513060832/http://www.straitstimes.com/GeneralElection/News/Story/STIStory_666950.html|archive-date=13 May 2011|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.straitstimes.com/GeneralElection/News/Story/STIStory_667375.html|title=Lim Hwee Hua will not contest next election|date=11 May 2011|work=Straits Times|accessdate=13 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110512191013/http://www.straitstimes.com/GeneralElection/News/Story/STIStory_667375.html|archive-date=12 May 2011|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>  George Yeo, who remained popular online and continued to have "a flood of support" after the election and had been repeatedly urged to contest the next election, or even contest the [https://the-singapore-lgbt-encyclopaedia.fandom.com/wiki/2011_Singaporean_presidential_election 2011 Singaporean presidential election] turned his supporters down, declaring, "I'm a free spirit, and I don't think I'm temperamentally suited for such a job."

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