Yahoo! News Singapore, 26 Jan 2013
Lee Li Lian of the opposition Workers’ Party won the Punggol East by-election by a comfortable margin Saturday, delivering a big blow to the ruling People’s Action Party.
The 34-year-old sales trainer garnered 16,038 votes against PAP candidate Dr Koh Poh Koon’s 12,856.
Reform Party’s Kenneth Jeyaretnam got 353 votes while Singapore Democratic Alliance’s Desmond Lim got 168 votes. Full story
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