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New electoral boundaries have just been annouced, meaning election will be held soon

Wikipedia has extensive info of singapore elections:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Singapore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_elections_in_Singapore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Singaporean_general_election

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Singaporean_general_election

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Singaporean_general_election

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Singaporean_general_election

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Singaporean_general_election

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Singaporean_general_election

and further back into the previous century - I do not know whether every one was covered but you could find out yourself with a search;

diagram showing PAP vote % in recent electionswhen the next one is called, I will cover some of the activities here plus commenting on some individual news items; press speculation says when Covid relaxation enters phase 2 in July the call will come forth. The main election issue? LHL retiring, do you support his chosen successor?

Heng Swee Keat was described by LKY as the best among his private secretaries 

A retirement party for minimart owner in his neighbourhood; woman next to Heng is Sim Ann, a junior minister

competition? what competition?

added 18/7/2020  Gorbachev and Ma Yingjiu are both nice guys; they wanted their organizations to be nice; they destroyed their organizations

Governments do many small things; a government that does almost all of the small things right is called effective, sometimes boring; they have to talk nice theories now and them, to show that they are nice; opposition can talk nice theories all the time

Nice leaders can take a government already doing almost everything right and just let it tick along; but they eventually learn the need to have iron fist inside velvet glove; just a question of how soon

it is rumored kirsten han is somewhere within this student crowd 



nicole seah and tin pei ling both had babies a couple years ago; next election will be toddler against toddler

 but no physical contact please in age of Covid  

a group of young (I assume) lesbians at Pinkdot. I have been trying to 

imagine them in helmets and masks like in Hongkong

is there a LBGT voting block? Pinkdot was very successful but are there votes in it?

kevlyn lim with fellow NSP members during 2015 election; hers was a rare case of rapid successful lobbying: a few months after she wept at a rally over the plight of single mothers, the government changed condition for maternal benefits to partially help them

taiwan supporters of renewed Hongkong protest; no doubt Singapore opposition parties wish all this to go away.moving stamford raffle's statue to the museum? when a research assistant of Lee Kuan Yew School of Pulbiic Policy made such a suggestion (to de-emphasize the "colonial" part of history), it was greeted with horror; no not an election sloganphotos of unidentified origin; they appear to be from 2015

will they or wont they?

will Lee Hsien Yang, brother of PM Lee, join Tan Cheng Bock's Progress Singapore Party and run for parliament in the next election?they met twice for breakfast in publicanother time at a PSP functionguy behind TCB appears to be Tan Jee Say. LHY also visited what looks like TCB's home/office before or after one breakfastMy own guess is LHY would not want to be a parliament candidate under any party: the retail politics of going door to door soliciting votes, and listening to voter complaints in HDB void deck, would not be his style; he might donate some money to PSP and others, but his interest would be in the next Presidential election. There has also been talk that PSP is wary of his intentions following his publishing an article in Malsy Mail in April about PAP wanting to hold early election

this is Li Hongyi, second son of PM Lee, now running a gov tech unit, speaking at a tech forum; whether he will enter politics is on many people's mind, though only occasionally discussed in public; it is thought he is advised by Vivian Balakrishnan, who was close to Lee Kuan Yew in his Tanjong Pagar daysmy own guess is he would not run in the next election, but will eventually enter parliament and cabinet to keep the Lee family tradition alive. Here is a reminder of happier times



12/7/2020  again I expect Li Hongyi to enter politics, probably fairly soon. It will however be after LHL has stepped down as PM so avoid next PM being called just a seat warmer; the succession plan is fluid

Gan Siow Huang, former airforce chief of staff, has been identified by local press as the first new PAP candidate; she retired from the military two months ago and received an appointment in NTUC12/7/2020 she was given a somewhat harder task than a usual newbie: she stood in a single member district, instead being pulled in as part of a GRC team; she did fine against an experienced oppo figure 

then I come to the dynamic duo of recent non-party activism, PJ Thum and Kirsten Han, both energetic and highly articulate, but unfortunately with limited mental scope: Kirsten goes everywhere and publishes all over the place, whining "singapore is repressive; becoming more so" (I challenge anyone to read her NYTimes/ WashPost/ Foreign Policy etc article and tell me it does not have that as theme), while Thum keeps saying "Singapore government lied about Operation Coldstore" (Operation what?)

You might think with their high profile, parties would be keenly seeking them. They had contact with SDP and PSP

and their friend Jolovan Wham has gone with SDPon the other hand, their past support for dubious celebrities might very well go against them

the boy standing behind kirsten han is Amos Yee, a name I suspect most people in the picture would prefer not to remember; the guy in the final row with head betwee two heads in the second row is Roy Ngerng; he might not be as forgettable, but his platforms would be (he currently lives in Taiwan):this crowd also want Singapore to learn democracy from Hongkongthis well informed, democracy loving Hongkong crowd support Amos Yeeadded 13/6/2020 - in response to question I asked on one of her articles, KH said she will not run in any SG general elections

Low Thia Khiang was in hospital from 30 April to 21 May, first 5 days in ICU, after injuring head in a fall at home; a few years ago he had broken arm, also after falling at home. 

photo appears to be him in bed talking to reporter at distance thru microphone rigged on black frame24/6/2020 selfie taken by Speaker of House Tan Chuan Jin, who visited Low at home the day before; not sure why low did not take photo with Pritam Singh who visited two days earlier

26/6/2020 first press interview

28/6/2020 so Ivan Lim is out; everyone must have heard the story so I wont repeat here, just comment that the incident is somewhat good for Heng personally, as he asserted his authority quickly to stop the bleeding; it also focused attention on a relatively featureless election so far - Lee Hsien Yang joining PSP was just a short blip on the radar; if he actually ran for MP it would have been the highlight