Results signal voters' trust in PAP to steer Singapore through uncertainty: Analysts

Landslide win is overall flight to safety informed by Govt's track record over last 5 years, they say

- Anjali Raguraman Correspondent Vanessa Paige Chelvan

The PAP's resounding victory at the 2025 General Election reflects voters' trust in the ability of Prime Minister Lawrence Wong and his party to steer the country through the brewing global turmoil, political analysts said.

The PAP's landslide victory, in which it won 87 of 97 seats, or 65.57 per cent of the vote share, was an overall flight to safety informed by the Government's track record over the past five years, including its handling of the Covid-19 crisis, analysts added.

"It is a critical GE because the PAP is (in the midst of) a leadership change, and the voters have shown they support the new PM and the 4G PAP team to be the government to steer us into the future," said former PAP MP Inderjit Singh.

The results also showed that even as voters become more receptive to political pluralism, some opposition parties are struggling to stay relevant to voters, experts said.

The WP has solidified its standing as the dominant opposition party in Singapore.

In addition to retaining its 10 seats in Aljunied and Sengkang GRCs and Hougang SMC, the WP will get both Non-Constituency MP seats, as the "best losers" this general election in Tampines GRC and Jalan Kayu SMC.

Meanwhile, the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) has outpaced the PSP's performance, while smaller parties faced a "wipeout", losing by such large margins that some candidates are set to lose their deposits.

With two parties in Parliament, this shows that "Singapore is settling into a 'one-and-a-half party' system", said Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) senior research fellow Gillian Koh.

"This has been an excellent first outing for Mr Lawrence Wong as the new secretary-general of the PAP and incumbent prime minister," said Dr Koh, who pointed out that PM Wong's predecessors had "more challenging" maiden campaigns.