According to political analysts, of all the voters, 25% are pro-PAP and 25% pro-Opposition. To these two groups, the candidates and policies matter very little.
The remaining 50% belong to the neutral group. Probably they base their decisions on the qualities of the candidates, the policies, their trust of the parties and their desire for more opposition MPs.
The results: PAP 60% and Oppositions 40%. If we exclude the 25% of the partisan voters from both sides, the ratio is 35 to 15. That means the PAP got 70% of votes from the neutral voters while the oppositions got 30%.
This shows most people have trust in the PAP and its candidates and accept most of its policies. So there is no need for the PAP to feel too badly about the drop of 6% in votes from the previous election.
There is also no need for it to go out of the way to try to please those who didn’t vote for the PAP.
Actually, with the huge amount misinformation, rhetoric and noise made by the pro-opposition group and the PAP still got 60%, it is a very good mandate indeed.
