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=== Results === | === Results === | ||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|Party | |||
|Collected Votes | |||
|Achievable Votes | |||
|% of Total Votes | |||
|% of Valid Votes | |||
|- | |||
|People's Action Party | |||
|494268 | |||
|636452 | |||
|77.7 (+3.6) | |||
|77.7 (+3.6) | |||
|- | |||
|Workers' Party | |||
|39590 | |||
|135559 | |||
|6.2 (-5.3) | |||
|29.2 (+1.3) | |||
|- | |||
|United People's Front | |||
|28586 | |||
|238112 | |||
|4.5 (+2.7) | |||
|12.0 (-3.7) | |||
|- | |||
|United Front | |||
|27522 | |||
|145222 | |||
|4.3 (-2.4) | |||
|19.0 (-6.3) | |||
|- | |||
|Barisan Sosialis | |||
|16488 | |||
|61152 | |||
|2.6 (-0.6) | |||
|27.0 (-0.1) | |||
|- | |||
|Pertubuhan Kebangsaan Melayu Singapura | |||
|13435 | |||
|68943 | |||
|2.1 (+0.9) | |||
|19.5 (-8.8) | |||
|- | |||
|Singapore Democratic Party | |||
|11292 | |||
|36787 | |||
|1.8 | |||
|30.7 | |||
|- | |||
|Singapore Justice Party | |||
|5271 | |||
|32856 | |||
|0.8 (+0.1) | |||
|16.0 (-1.8) | |||
|} | |||
# '''Clean Sweep''': For the fourth consecutive time, PAP captured all seats in Parliament. | # '''Clean Sweep''': For the fourth consecutive time, PAP captured all seats in Parliament. | ||
# '''High Vote Share''': Both PAP’s overall vote share and Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s Tanjong Pagar constituency’s vote share were the second highest since the 1968 General Election. | # '''High Vote Share''': Both PAP’s overall vote share and Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s Tanjong Pagar constituency’s vote share were the second highest since the 1968 General Election. | ||