Election Results
With the Housing Development Board (public housing) upgrading scheme dangled as a pricy stake for voters, PAP reversed its electoral decline for the first time in four elections and since 1963, won back an opposition ward, recapturing the two SDP seats out of the four it had lost the last round. The PAP's share of the vote rose by 4 percentage points nationally. With Chiam See Tong's defection, SDP had no representation in Parliament since 1984. Low Thia Khiang, now WP assistant secretary-general, and Jeyaretnam as a Non-Constituency MP, returned to the legislature, the latter's last presence was previously in 1986.
| Parties and alliances | Leader | Contested seats |
Seats won | Popular vote | % | +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| People's Action Party | Goh Chok Tong | 83 | 81† | 465,751 | 65.0 | +4.0 | |
| Workers' Party | Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam | 14 | 1 | 101,544 | 14.2 | -0.1 | |
| Singapore Democratic Party | Chee Soon Juan | 13 | 0 | 76,129 | 10.6 | -1.4 | |
| National Solidarity Party | Steve Chia | 7 | 0 | 48,322 | 6.7 | -0.6 | |
| Singapore People's Party | Chiam See Tong | 3 | 1 | 16,746 | 2.3 | N.A. | |
| Democratic Progressive Party | Tan Soo Phuan | 2 | 0 | 5,043 | 0.7 | N.A. | |
| Independent | N.A. | 1 | 0 | 3,210 | 0.4 | N.A. | |
| Total | 83 | 734,000 | 100.0 | - | |||
| Spoilt votes | 17,255 | - | |||||
| Did not vote | 31,332 | - | |||||
| Total voting electorate | 765,332 | - | |||||
| †includes uncontested victories | |||||||
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