Singapore election gives PAP a supermajority, improved vote share

Final results show 87 seats for ruling party, 10 for opposition Workers' Party

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Prime Minister Lawrence Wong waves during his speech at the Yio Chu Kang Stadium assembly center on May 4. (Photo by Suzu Takahashi)

DYLAN LOH and TSUBASA SURUGA

SINGAPORE -- Singapore's ruling People's Action Party won a supermajority, or more than two-thirds, of parliament seats in Saturday's general election, retaining control for the next five years of a country that it has governed since independence in 1965.

The PAP has secured 87 of the 97 parliamentary seats, including five seats where it ran unopposed, official final results showed early Sunday.

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