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For.many, if its opposition they strongly prefer WP

Look at the Tampines race, the 2 other non WP opposition parties got crushed below 1%. In the past such multi corner fight takes away at least 10% of the votes.

WP narrowly lost In Jalan Kayu, Tampines and Punggol

All the other opposition parties saw a lost of support. Even the PSP which was expected to do well given exposure in parliament did not do so. 

The exception was Chee Soon Juan who garnered 46% running in a new SMC where he had to campaign from scratch after boundaries redrawn caused him 9yrs of ground work. He would have won if not for the gerrymandering and having to start from scratch in a new area. Over the years,  he has mellowed and rebranded himself well.

Why did the anticipated swing to opposition not happen?
In fact for many the results look disappointing for opposition supporters given the mounting problems we have with cost of living and other issues. The PAP had more foul ups In the last 4 yrs than other periods. This gave opposition plenty of material to work on to present alternatives.
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This election  PAP took out many neighborhood development plans and sold it to residents. When the MRT is coming, Where the next playground will be completed. In fact these plans were sold hard to rresidents in town centers leading up  to the elections.
These municipal development plans matter to residents and the opposition were not In position to present any. 

Unknown independent candidate Jeremy Tan actually  did quite well with 36% despite being an unknown because he ran in Mountbatten an area where the residents are mostly staying in private housing and PAP cannot do much in the way of neighbothood developments to sway the votes.

The CDC vouchers given out just before elections  helped to distract Singaporeans from inflation and cost of living issues and have been effective to temporarily ease the cost of living pain.

The smaller opposition parties  had very poor branding and image and had no appeal. Voters are more demanding these days and dont just throw their support for to any opposition.

Not really because of CDC voucher lah, the results and vibe of 2025 erection ish actually very similar to the results and vibe of 2006 erection. And there ish no CDC voucher back then to influence sinkie one, beside the needy type ish actually the strongest supporter of PAP regardless of vouchers, cause they are always worried that if PAP lose whatever little help they are having nao may even be lesser or removed completely by PAP as punishment.

This 2025 result ish already kind of expected as this ish just sinkie at their best and norm, kpkb only but no dare to do anything. Don't think this behavior will be change even after another century, as this ish already kind of embedded into sinkie kiasee DNA. Beside for generations the 601 really only care about residential upgrading projects like covered walkway, parks, new lifts, new malls\shops etc and more MRT stations in their own area nia, else sinkie in general don't really care about politics nor society woes.

Anyway most anti-PAP sinkie that moi know are not necessary die-hard WP fansees, they just acknowledge the reality that WP ish the most influential among the opps and has better chance to win against PAP in an one on one fight when compare to any other opp parties, so they rather vote WP to have that already very slim chance to achieve miracle. Thus if there ish any multi-corners fights, these sinkie tend to see any opp that choose to go against WP as selfish and ish the rat $hit of the opp parties and they are only to help PAP sabotage the opp's result nia.

Thus those other opp parties should really be more realistic, they should not aim to challenge or even replace WP, they should always focus their efforts in challenging PAP nia. Else they would eventually lose the already smaller opp supporters base in red dot.