Hougang By-election later news up date

[Charlie99]

Do you recall the results for Joo Chiat in 2011?
Please post it for a reminder of the potential for 2016.
Hopefully, Joo Chiat will remain as a SMC.

Yee Jenn Jong is a really decent chap. Many Joo Chiat residents felt his sincerity and honesty at the last GE. He lost with the slimmest of votes. I believe he would win in the next GE in Joo Chiat as more get to know him - a trustworthy guy with good intentions, provided it is not absorbed into a GRC, a dirty move that the PAP is not one bit ashamed to do. As shown in the Hougang BE, there's nothing that the PAP would consider too evil to do.

 

[sleaguepunter]

Yee Jenn Jong is a really decent chap. Many Joo Chiat residents felt his sincerity and honesty at the last GE. He lost with the slimmest of votes. I believe he would win in the next GE in Joo Chiat as more get to know him - a trustworthy guy with good intentions, provided it is not absorbed into a GRC, a dirty move that the PAP is not one bit ashamed to do. As shown in the Hougang BE, there's nothing that the PAP would consider too evil to do.

according someone i know who live in JC, Mr Yee has continue his house visit in the estate. She received him at her house and saw him a couple of times in the estate. But as for the immortal chong, she had never seen him even once since the last GE.

 

[freedalas]

Do you recall the results for Joo Chiat in 2011?
Please post it for a reminder of the potential for 2016.
Hopefully, Joo Chiat will remain as a SMC.

WP Yee Jenn Jong received 48.98% of the votes. He lost to PAP Charles Chong by only 288 votes. So if PAP continues to fumble on the next 4 years and Yee continues working the ground hard, a very good chance Joo Chiat will fall to WP. The other strong possibility is East Coast GRC.

 

[PAPIBCHIEF]

Hougang will be redrawn into aljunied Grc in the next GE.
PAP will let the 6 WPs served another term.
There is no harm cos 6 can do no threat.

 

[Charlie99]

Based on the voting pattern for Joo Chiat, East Coast GRC, and may be a few others in the Eastern part of Singapore, and if the Workers Party ("WP") continues to work the ground, go house to house visit, make themselves more visible and not make any fatal mistakes, it appears that the WP candidates will be serious contenders.

 

[zeddy]

Just look at those pics.. Hougang residents of different races all as one saluting the WP members.. You see Malay uncle showing his Hammer in show of support to the WP.. You see Malay abangs from a Malay wedding comin forward to shake the hands of MP Fazal Manap and Towkay Loh.. You see a group of Chinese family in a funeral wake waving and cheering the WP's lorry.. You see an Indian uncle giving the thumbs up.. You see a Chinese man with bandage on his ankle cheering on the Hammers.. They all showed their support willingly.. PAP can never have this kind of support...

 

[kazuo]

man, i am moved to see such support! They look even happier than Chelsea fans when the football team paraded their European Cup

 

[rusty]

Who draws the crowd and plays so loud...



A song specially dedicated to Mr Png...The Guitar Man of Hougang!

 

[HTOLAS]

There would be F1 lights put up along the route for a night procession. And the entourage would have been 100m long with LKY in a Pope Mobil. Presstapo leeporters would have been deployed every 20m to 'get a feel of the people' (and to lead cheers). And fireworks would have been fired from the PAP Branch Office.

May be the journalists and photographers took a day off. But if DC had won, those journalists and photographers may not be able to take that day off. The government and its affiliated entities work in mysterious ways.

 

[streetcry]

[h=1]WP and PAP split Hougang overseas votes[/h]
Published on May 30, 2012

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Workers' Party Png Eng Huat, who won the by-election, watches the sealed boxes containing overseas votes as Counting Assistants proceed to open the boxes. The counting of overseas votes for the By-Election for Hougang Constituency was done at Serangoon Secondary School. Overseas votes for the Hougang by-election were split evenly between the WP and the PAP, the Elections Department said. -- ST PHOTO: LIM WUI LIANG


By Robin Chan
Overseas votes for the Hougang by-election were split evenly between the Workers' Party and the People's Action Party, the Elections Department said.



They were counted on Wednesday at the Serangoon Secondary School counting centre.
Of the 43 registered overseas voters, 13 each cast their vote for Mr Png Eng Huat and Mr Desmond Choo.
There was one rejected vote, while the rest did not vote.

 

[rusty]

Of the 43 registered overseas voters, 13 each cast their vote for Mr Png Eng Huat and Mr Desmond Choo.
There was one rejected vote, while the rest did not vote.

13 from Canada for Png and 13 from Switzerland for Choo. Rejected one was from Malaysia and those in Australia couldn't care a hoot.

 

[Fook Seng]

13 from Canada for Png and 13 from Switzerland for Choo. Rejected one was from Malaysia and those in Australia couldn't care a hoot.

Statistically very odd. Don't you think?

 

[HTOLAS]

Exactly my thoughts.

Statistically very odd. Don't you think?

 

[chonburifc]

Statistically very odd. Don't you think?

Not only odd but ridiculous! Unless the 13 in Canada is one same family and the same for the Switzerland. Switzerland ones maybe related to MIW to enjoying the SWISS standard of living.

 

[rusty]

Statistically very odd. Don't you think?

If the result was 50/50 ..... it will be a nail biting finish to find out who the rejected one is
Luckily, the winning margin was a thrash and it doesn't matter anymore

 

[GerGer]

yup heng...

 

[GerGer]

Very well received crowds there. PAP must be GREEN with envy. How come Straits Times never publish such grand photos of WP?

because they want to show "fair" views like they always do mah

 

[sengkang]

MP-elect Png's first Meet-the-People Session

SINGAPORE: Hougang's MP-elect, Mr Png Eng Huat, says one of his priorities is to reinstate the Hougang Constituency Committee (HGCC) now that the ward has a permanent MP.

The HGCC was suspended after former Hougang MP Yaw Shin Leong was expelled from his party after failing to account for alleged indiscretions.

Since Mr Png won the Hougang by-election on Saturday, he has been attending to constituency matters, including meeting the town council manager.

On Wednesday, Mr Png held his first Meet-the-People Session. It attracted more than 50 people, of whom 19 wanted to seek their MP's help.

Mr Png also received a gift of 60 "prosperity" cakes shaped to form his name in Chinese which is "fa" or "prosperity" in English.

Mr Png said he has yet to take a break since the by-election, but hopes to rest this coming weekend.

- CNA/ir

 

[sengkang]

[h=1]New MP hits the ground running in Hougang[/h] [h=2]Png Eng Huat holds first Meet-the-People Session, sets lists of tasks including re-forming WP's grassroots arm[/h]
Published on May 31, 2012

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Mr Png Eng Huat spent a long time talking to each of the 19 residents who saw him at Wednesday's Meet-the-People Session, ending only past midnight. -- ST PHOTO: NG SOR LUAN


By Andrea Ong


Just days into his first week as Hougang's new MP, Mr Png Eng Huat has already hit the ground running. Apart from going round the ward, he has also started visiting homes and even attended a wake.


And on Wednesday night, the 50-year-old held his first Meet-the-People Session, which drew a large crowd of residents, many of whom turned up just to get a glimpse of their newly elected MP.
The Workers' Party (WP) MP has also set a long list of tasks for himself, including representing the two opposition-held constituencies in an ongoing government review of bus services. WP chairman Sylvia Lim told The Straits Times on Wednesday that Mr Png will be lobbying for better bus services for Hougang and Aljunied GRC under a programme to roll out new buses and bus routes across Singapore over the next five years.


Another of Mr Png's priorities is to re-form the WP's grassroots arm in Hougang. Called the Hougang Constituency Committee, it was suspended after then-MP Yaw Shin Leong was expelled in February. Mr Png had been put in charge of the committee then, but he will now have to reappoint committee members and office-holders. He told reporters that he plans to finish doing this by next week.

 

[myfoot123]

13 from Canada for Png and 13 from Switzerland for Choo. Rejected one was from Malaysia and those in Australia couldn't care a hoot.

All the votes from there casted for DC confirmed my suspicion that many famiLEE members stays in Switzerland, parked their ill-gotten money and enjoy their own Swiss standard of living there while continue to treat Singapore like their ATM machines.