Here's what happened at the PAP and SDP rallies last night in photographs

We make sense of rallies for you through pictures.

Jonathan Lim | April 30, 2016, 11:04 AM

The People's Action Party (PAP) and Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) held their first rally of the Bukit Batok by-election at Bukit Gombak Stadium and at a field along Bukit Batok Industrial Park A respectively.

Here we go:

People who stand out from the crowd:

At the PAP rally At the PAP rally - Maybe he wants to look like the lawyer with L'Oreal Hair.

_NKY1585 At the PAP rally - Is MCCY going to take issue with this person's use of LKY's image?

At the PAP rally At the PAP rally - Cool cap dude.

DSC_6395 At the SDP rally - Freedom of speech right here guys.

Shots of the rally crowd:

_NKY1140 At the PAP rally - The turn out is like most S-League matches, but older.

_NKY1722 At the PAP rally - Chairs at rallies. So welfare.

_NKY1756 At the PAP rally - Umbrella I/C

DSC_6924 At the SDP rally - No chairs at this rally.

DSC_6980 At the SDP rally - Probably because there's only standing space?

DSC_7002 At the SDP rally - There's definitely at least one fan in this picture.

DSC_6759 At the SDP rally

The politicians of the rally:

_NKY1465 This is the PAP candidate Murali Pillai

_NKY1894 This is Murali again. But more importantly, that's L'Oreal hair lawyer behind!

_NKY1268 Money cap dude doing the Gangnam Style with Murali? The song lampoons the elitism/materialism in Seoul. Hmmm....

_NKY1769 Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob speaks at rallies too.

_NKY1862 Everyone's favourite Deputy Prime Minister and Singapore's only female Minister currently serving

DSC_6493 Dr Paul Tambyah along with the star of the SDP show

DSC_6454

DSC_6886 Darkness enshrouds him or a light in dark times. Your call.

DSC_6909 我要打十个.

DSC_7172 Finally caught a picture of him smiling.

Photographs of the PAP rally by Ng Kai Yuan

Photographs of the SDP rally by Cheah Wenqi

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