Singapore's election will determine whether Prime Minister Lawrence Wong can secure a strong enough mandate to preserve the People's Action Party's political dominance, respond to economic and social pressures at home, and sustain the city-state's diplomatic agility abroad amid escalating great power rivalry and trade tensions. Singapore will hold a general election on May 3, with all 97 elected parliamentary seats contested across the city-state's 33 constituencies. This will be the first general election held under Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, who formally succeeded Lee Hsien Loong in a planned handover in May 2024, marking a generational shift in the ruling People's Action Party, or PAP, after over two decades of Lee's leadership. The PAP, in power continuously since Singapore achieved self-governance under British oversight in 1959, is fielding candidates for the election in every constituency, while the main opposition reformist Workers' Party, or WP, is contesting 26 seats, primarily in...
