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Archive for May 6th, 2006
Yep, after much build-up, today is the big day in Singapore:
IBN Live — Polls opened at 0000 GMT at more than 400 voting stations and were to close 12 hours later. By late morning, one-fifth of the 1.2 million registered voters had cast their compulsory votes, the elections department said.
The Contenders:
and the currently ruling PAP:
Results [...]
This year’s local elections are now wrapped up and the results are as follows:
Councils
Councillors
Party
Net +/-
Total
Net +/-
Total
Conservative
12
67
250
1568
Labour
-18
24
-254
1064
Liberal Democrat
1
13
18
781
Residents Association
0
0
-8
21
Green
0
0
14
20
British National Party
0
0
13
13
Liberal
0
0
-1
9
Independent (…) Health Concern
0
0
1
5
SALT
0
0
0
3
UK Independence Party
0
0
0
1
Others
0
0
-33
94
No Overall Control
5
59
-
-
The real winners were the Conservatives, with the Lib Dems holding their own, and labour falling flat on its face. The BBC have published a very useful Interactive election [...]
