The two candidates who lost the most at the Punggol East by-election Saturday were Desmond Lim from the Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA) and Kenneth Jeyaretnam from Reform Party.
Not only did they get low support from voters, both are losing their election deposit of S$16,000 each that they paid to contest this by-election.
A candidate's election deposit is forfeited if he or she gets less than one-eighth or 12.5 per cent of the votes cast in the constituency that he or she contests. Full story
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