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3 elected as non-constituency MPs after Singapore's election

Xinhua, September 16, 2015 Adjust font size:

Five days after the Singapore's general election, three electors from Singapore's main opposition Workers' Party (WP) have been elected as non-constituency members of parliament (NCMP), the Elections Department (ELD) announced on Wednesday.

The three are Lee Li Lian, Dennis Tan Lip Fong and Leon Perera.

Under the Parliamentary Elections Act, at any general election, together with the elected opposition MPs, there should be no more than nine NCMPs in parliament.

The NCMPs to be declared elected shall be determined amongst candidates of the opposition parties on the basis of the percentage of votes polled by those candidates.

As six opposition MPs were elected to parliament, three candidates who received the highest votes amongst the un-elected candidates from the opposition parties shall be declared elected as NCMPs, the ELD said.

Lee Li Lian, who contested in Punggol East Single-Member Constituency (SMC) and Dennis Tan, who contested in Fengshan SMC, received the two highest percentages of votes among un-elected opposition candidates, while Leon Perera represented Workers' Party to contest in the East Coast Group Representation Constituency, which received the third highest percentage of votes amongst the un-elected opposition candidates.

Therefore, ELD announced that the three have been elected as NCMP. However, Lee later responded that she will not accept the offer.

The Workers' Party, who concurred with Lee's decision, said the party would appoint Associate Prof. Daniel Goh if the parliament resolves to fill the vacated NCMP seat left by Lee. Endi