PAP takes 77 seats or 60.97 percent of the vote in the General Election, the lowest percentage in its electoral history.

Four seats go to the opposition, the most since 1968, with the SDP's Chiam See Tong, Ling How Doong and Cheo Chai Chen, and the Workers’ Party's Low Thia Khiang elected. The opposition effectively concedes the election to the ruling party on nomination day, deciding to contest fewer than half the seats so as to produce a “by-election effect”.

Fifteen electoral divisions are designated as GRCs and 60 MPs are elected through GRCs in these elections.

The PAP wins 81 out of 83 seats in the General Election with 64.98 percent of votes cast, the first time it has managed to reverse the decline in its share of votes since 1980.

PM Goh Chok Tong attributes the linking of the upgrading programme to votes as the “single most important” factor in the PAP’s election success.

Cheng San GRC is this election’s battleground. Mr Goh stakes his reputation as Prime Minister on the fight against the alleged threat of Chinese chauvinism posed by Workers’ Party candidate Tang Liang Hong.

The PAP team of Lee Yock Suan, Michael Lim, Yeo Guat Kwang, Zainul Abidin Rasheed and Heng Chiang Meng prevail against determined campaigning by the Workers’ Party. They poll 54.82 percent against 45.18 percent for the WP’s J.B. Jeyaretnam, Huang Seow Kwang, Abdul Rahim Osman, Tan Bin Seng and Tang Liang Hong.

But the Workers’ Party team polls the highest percentage among unsuccessful opposition candidates and selects Jeyaretnam to be NCMP.

The Workers’ Party’s Low Thia Khiang is returned in Hougang for a second time, while Chiam See Tong, now of the Singapore People’s Party, wins for a fourth time in Potong Pasir.

The PAP re-takes Bukit Gombak, with Ang Mong Seng beating Ling How Doong, and Nee Soon Central, where Ong Ah Heng defeats Cheo Chai Chen. MacPherson is carved out of Marine Parade GRC for a one-on-one fight between PAP's Matthias Yao and SDP's Chee Soon Juan, which Yao wins.