Singapore polls: As campaign ends, contests for the seats to watch remain tight

Heng Swee Keat, Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister speaking to residents at the Bedok South market during the final day of the election campaign on July 8, 2020, in Singapore. - AP

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Tomorrow, voters cast their ballots in the first general election to be held in a crisis since GE2001. But the circumstances could not be more different.

In the snap polls called in the wake of the Sept 11,2001, terror attacks in the United States and amid a recession, just 29 of the 84 seats were contested - and the PAP won a landslide 75.3 per cent of the vote.