Singapore "elections" begin

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4976938.stm

Parties:

People's Action Party - the fascists who currently run the place
Workers' Party of Singapore - hardcore socialists
Singapore Democratic Party - liberal party (in the traditional sense)
Singapore Democratic Alliance - a giant coalition of opposition parties, mostly of a centrist stripe

Of course this is really just a hypothetical, since I don't think there's any seat in which all the opposition parties are running and in about half the People's Action Party is the only one on the ballot.

Anyway, I'd vote for Workers' Party of Singapore of course, assuming I hadn't already fled that hellhole.

[Jake]

People's Action Party without a doubt.

[Platypus]

Democratic Alliance. Mainly because they'd have the best chance of forming a non-Lee gov't.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Well they got nowhere. Essentially status quo results, PAP won all but 2 seats.

[True Democrat]

Well they got nowhere. Essentially status quo results, PAP won all but 2 seats.

Where are the results?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I just saw them on wikipedia.

These "elections" bring a whole new level to gerrymandering, since while they use FPTP, there's also a bunch of multi-seat districts, unlike most multi-seat districts where you can vote for individual candidates, you have to vote for the whole set of candidates by one party, and then whichever wins wins all the seats. Imagine if New York decided it wasn't going to have districts anymore and whichever set of candidates which got the most votes would win all of its congressional seats.

[jaichind]

I just saw them on wikipedia.

These "elections" bring a whole new level to gerrymandering, since while they use FPTP, there's also a bunch of multi-seat districts, unlike most multi-seat districts where you can vote for individual candidates, you have to vote for the whole set of candidates by one party, and then whichever wins wins all the seats. Imagine if New York decided it wasn't going to have districts anymore and whichever set of candidates which got the most votes would win all of its congressional seats.

All that is true but still does not take away from the fact that PAP took 67%of the vote.  In fact for many elections in the row the opposition on purpose put up candidates in less than half of the seats to give the population an incentive to vote for it risk-free just as a protest vote.  Even the opposition accepts the PAP as the natural party of government.  Of course even then PAP still won landslides in the contested seats.  There exist no system where PAP would not win, just a matter of the distrubution of seats.

[Democratic Hawk]

Singapore Democratic Alliance (I'm not a hard-core socialist and I'm not a traditional liberal nor am I a 'fascist')

Dave

[Max]

Singapore Democratic Alliance, because you've called the Worker's Party "hardcore-socialist". And I don't know anything about the party, so I believe you.