Workers Party

Workers Party: In an indication that the PAP has regained some of its lost popularity, it won 69.86 percent of the votes cast, according to the Elections Department, compared to 60 percent votes in the 2011 elections, according to Asahi Shimbun. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who won from the Ang Mo Kio constituency, thanked his supporters for giving "us this very good result." "We are very grateful, we are very happy, but at the same time, we are very humbled by the result. ... Tomorrow will be better than today. The People Action Party swept 83 of the 89 seats in Parliament while the opposition Workers' Party got six seats. SG100 will be better than SG50," he said, referring to the 50 years that the PAP has ruled Singapore since independence in 1965. Since independence, the PAP had also won every seat in Parliament until 1981 after which the opposition started winning one or two seats. The party has won every election since 1965 and this is the 12th time it will form a government. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.