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=== Election deposit === | === Election deposit === | ||
For this election, the deposit for each candidate was set at S$13,500 (approximately US$8,590 | For this election, the deposit for each candidate was set at S$13,500 (approximately US$8,590) which was about 8% of the total annual salary to a member of parliament in the preceding year, rounded to the nearest S$500. The regulations of the elections stated that the deposit was to be forfeited if the candidate failed to obtain at least one-eighth of the votes. | ||
=== Electorate === | === Electorate === | ||
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Election issues | === Election issues === | ||
As in previous elections, bread and butter issues including jobs, medical care and cost of living dominated the election campaign. Other major election issues are listed in the following. | As in previous elections, bread and butter issues including jobs, medical care and cost of living dominated the election campaign. Other major election issues are listed in the following. | ||
* Social | |||
** Integrated Resorts and legalisation of casino gambling | |||
** Education policy | |||
** Public transport | |||
** Public housing policy | |||
** Lift Upgrading Programme(LUP) | |||
* Governance | |||
** Progress package and Budget 2006 | |||
** Group representation constituency system | |||
** Central Provident Fund scheme | |||
** Internal Security Act and civil liberties | |||
** Ministerial pay | |||
* Others | |||
** National Kidney Foundation Singapore scandal | |||
** Integrity of the candidates, such as the James Gomez incident | |||
== Timeline == | == Timeline == | ||
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Apart from overseas voting for those who had resided in Singapore for two out of the last five years, this was also the first election where six-member GRCs were contested (among which the Prime Minister's constituency of Ang Mo Kio garnered votes below PAP's national average of 66.6%), and none of the candidates forfeited their election deposits. This was also the second election (after 1980) in history with no independents, likely due to new election laws requiring presence of assentors in Nomination Centres, posing difficulty for candidates without party machinery. | Apart from overseas voting for those who had resided in Singapore for two out of the last five years, this was also the first election where six-member GRCs were contested (among which the Prime Minister's constituency of Ang Mo Kio garnered votes below PAP's national average of 66.6%), and none of the candidates forfeited their election deposits. This was also the second election (after 1980) in history with no independents, likely due to new election laws requiring presence of assentors in Nomination Centres, posing difficulty for candidates without party machinery. | ||
=== By constituency === | |||
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|+Results of 2006 Singapore general election | |||
!Division | |||
!Seats | |||
!Voters | |||
!Party | |||
!Candidates | |||
!Votes | |||
!Votes% | |||
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| rowspan="2" |Aljunied GRC | |||
| rowspan="2" |5 | |||
| rowspan="2" |145,141 | |||
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|Cynthia Phua | |||
George Yeo Yong-Boon | |||
Lim Hwee Hua | |||
Yeo Guat Kwang | |||
Zainul Abidin Bin Mohamed Rasheed | |||
|'''74,843''' | |||
|{{Percentage|74843|145141}} | |||
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|Goh Meng Seng | |||
James Gomez | |||
Sylvia Lim | |||
Mohammed Rahizan Bin Yaacob | |||
Tan Wui-Hua | |||
|58,593 | |||
|{{Percentage|58,593|145141}} | |||
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== Aftermath == | == Aftermath == | ||