No deposits forfeited

Good showing by all losers means they will get back $13,500 security

By Ahmad Osman
May 7, 2006
AsiaOne Special Political Correspondent

None of the candidates who contested in Singapore's tenth general election lost the deposit of $13,500 put up by each of them.

The money is returned to a candidate getting at least 12.5 per cent of the valid votes cast in a constituency.

In the last general election in 2001, Tan Lead Shake of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) who stood in Ayer Rajah and Tan Kim Chuang, an independent candidate in Bukit Timah lost their deposits.