Published on May 5, 2025
Current Affairs
Lawrence Wong's People's Action Party (PAP)
Lawrence Wong's People's Action Party (PAP)

♦ Prime Minister Lawrence Wong's People's Action Party (PAP) won the Singapore General Election on 3 May 2025.

♦ PAP secured 87 of the 97 parliamentary seats.

♦ In all, 65.57% of the 2,386,452 valid votes cast went to the PAP — up from 61.24% in the 2020 General Election — in what was PM Wong’s first electoral test leading the ruling party.

♦ The opposition Workers’ Party retained its 10 seats.

♦ Wong was sworn-in 2024, May as the new Prime Minister in 20 years after Lee Hsien Loong stepped down after almost two decades.

♦ The PAP has ruled the Singapore ever since independence in 1965.