Singaporeans vote in a by-election today that will test whether Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is winning back support after the ruling party’s poorest performance at polls last year.
About 23,000 people, or 1 percent of the electorate, are eligible to vote in the Hougang district in northeastern Singapore today before polls close at 8 p.m. The seat has been held by the opposition Workers’ Party since 1991 and is vacant after Yaw Shin Leong, who won 64.8 percent of votes in 2011, was expelled from his party in February for what it called “indiscretions in his private life.”
“The by-election is seen as a report card on how the government has fared in the past year,” said Kit Wei Zheng, a Singapore-based economist at Citigroup Inc. Full story
