Post-GE2020: Meme highlights from Polling Day (and night), Digital News

After weeks of intense politicking, Singapore’s most unusual general election yet is finally over, with the nation pulling off a successful election amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.

Nonetheless, it’s all done and dusted. The ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) retains its supermajority in Parliament this time around but lost the newly carved-out Sengkang GRC to the opposing Workers’ Party (WP), which now has 10 elected MPs in office.

In what has been dubbed a crisis election, the PAP won 61.24 per cent of the overall votes, a 8.66 per cent drop from its 69.9 per cent share in the 2015 polls. The share of the popular vote was not as high as he would have liked and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong acknowledged that there indeed was a “clear desire for a diversity” of views in Parliament.

And because this election has been largely an online one due to the pandemic, there was a clear diversity in the realm of internet funnies too with local meme lords churning out work throughout the course of Polling Day (and night). Now that you’ve rested up from staying awake into the wee hours of the morning, catch up on some memes you might have missed below.

Extended polling hours

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCe4AFGlp5u/

https://twitter.com/tzehern_/status/1281557716465414146

That white cat

https://www.facebook.com/asiaonecom/videos/1209917249367789/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCdzbWznf7x/

https://twitter.com/Kafoosh/status/1281610010498236416

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCdzkgeluOc/

Marymount SMC now with Singapore’s first female general as their MP

Gonna move to Marymount so Gan Siow Huang can knock me down 😩 pic.twitter.com/xO1zJbjUFI

— marcus (@murukkus) July 10, 2020

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCfY50-nbuX/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCeI1J9p55W/

Pioneer SMC independent candidate with only 2 per cent of votes

F to Cheang Peng Wah, the independent candidate who got 600 votes in Pioneer SMC and will be forfeiting his $13,500 deposit (you have to get 12.5% of the vote) #ge2020 pic.twitter.com/bYXlzRrkNY

— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) July 10, 2020