// Adds dimensions UUID, Author and Topic into GA4
Thursday, September 24, 2026
28 C
Singapore

With all the professionals that it has, did SDP misread the Blackbox poll?

The Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) in sharing the poll of Blackbox Research suggested that Bukit Batok voters said that Chee was a better candidate but that they felt safer with the People’s Action Party.

link: http://yoursdp.org/news/survey_bb_voters_say_chee_better_candidate_but_feel_safer_with_pap/2016-05-15-6124
link: http://yoursdp.org/news/survey_bb_voters_say_chee_better_candidate_but_feel_safer_with_pap/2016-05-15-6124

Blackbox Research, a Singapore-based communications and content-research agency, conducted a telephone survey in Bukit Batok between 30 Apr and 3 May to gauge how Bukit Batok voters were feeling about the By-Election. Their poll suggested that PAP would win the by-election by getting 64.4 percent of the vote. The PAP’s eventual victory at 61.2 percent was within the poll’s error margin of -/+ 5.6 percent.
The poll said that of the 33 percent who participated in the telephone poll said that they would vote for SDP (or were leaning towards voting for it), because they felt that SDP’s candidate Dr Chee Soon Juan was a better candidate than the PAP’s Murali Pillai.
And that 67 percent who participated in the telephone poll said that they would vote for PAP (or were leaning towards voting for it) because they prefer or trust PAP more.
The published poll however, did not do a direct comparison on who was the ‘better candidate’, or which is a more trustable party. The Blackbox poll is here: http://bit.ly/27ri74w.
It did however using the preference of those that participated in the telephone poll, do a direct comparison of the Bukit Batok voters perception of the two candidates – and Murali came out on top.
1

Update: SDP has edited their article.

Hot this week

Singapore toddler’s death leads to new MSF unit for identifying potential cases of child abuse

After the death of Megan Khung, the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) said on Tuesday (Sep 22) that it is launching Sensemaking Alerts for Frontline Engagement and Response (SAFER)

Singapore to sign joint statement on AI safety with 21 other nations

Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said on Sept 22 that Singapore is supporting the statement started by Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and Finnish President Alexander Stubb

Popular Categories

document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", () => { const trigger = document.getElementById("ads-trigger"); if ('IntersectionObserver' in window && trigger) { const observer = new IntersectionObserver((entries, observer) => { entries.forEach(entry => { if (entry.isIntersecting) { lazyLoader(); // You should define lazyLoader() elsewhere or inline here observer.unobserve(entry.target); // Run once } }); }, { rootMargin: '800px', threshold: 0.1 }); observer.observe(trigger); } else { // Fallback setTimeout(lazyLoader, 3000); } });
// //
Enable Notifications OK No thanks