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.

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