{"id":71473,"date":"2025-05-04T03:26:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T18:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/03\/singapore-ruling-party-wins-election-in-landslide"},"modified":"2025-05-04T03:26:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T18:26:33","slug":"singapore-ruling-party-wins-election-in-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71473","title":{"rendered":"Singapore ruling party wins election in landslide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People\u2019s Action party retains majority, with sample counts showing it winning all but 10 seats in 97-seat legislature<\/p>\n<p>Singapore\u2019s ruling party has notched a resounding win in general elections, official results have shown, giving the prime minister, Lawrence Wong, the clear mandate he sought from voters.<\/p>\n<p>Wong\u2019s long-ruling People\u2019s Action party crossed the threshold of 49 seats early on Sunday to form a majority government in the wealthy city-state\u2019s 97-seat unicameral legislature, with sample counts earlier showing the PAP winning all but 10 seats.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/03\/singapore-ruling-party-wins-election-in-landslide\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People\u2019s Action party retains majority, with sample counts showing it winning all but 10 seats in 97-seat legislatureSingapore\u2019s ruling party has notched a resounding win in general elections, official results have shown, giving the prime minister, Law&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4723,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,783,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-singapore","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4723"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71474,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71473\/revisions\/71474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}