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Upswing in younger voters backing status quo in GE2025: IPS study
Tham Yuen-CUpdated Tue, 2 September 2025 at 8:56 PM SGT6-min read
IPS found a sharp rise in conservatives, or those who support the political status quo, among those aged 20 to 39 years old.
SINGAPORE - Younger voters backing the political status quo were likely a key factor in the nationwide swing of 4.33 percentage points to the People’s Action Party in the May 3 General Election, defying the growing trend of greater desire for political pluralism among Singaporeans.
This was among the findings by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) in its post-election survey, which polled 2,056 voting-age Singaporeans on international research firm YouGov’s Singapore panel through an online, self-administered survey.
The results shed some light on what has been described as a landslide win by the PAP in GE2025, which saw the party’s share of the popular vote increase to 65.57 per cent from 61.24 per cent in GE2020.