Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has accepted the recommendations of the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee and said that "MPs should serve the residents they represent to the best of their ability" wherever the boundaries may be drawn.
PM Lee added that "voters should support the candidates or teams who will best represent their interests, both in the constituency and as the government of Singapore".
The'>
Posted by Lee Hsien Loong on Friday, July 24, 2015
PM Lee is right -- the re-drawing of boundaries is not the most important thing during GE.
What's more important is how everyone is re-creating a new map for their audience.
Who has done well? Who has failed miserably? Mothership.sg provides a review of 6 maps in the cyberspace now.
The Straits Times
Colour combination: 9/10. ST provided different shades of blue and green to the SMCs and GRCs.
Informativeness: 8/10. Different types of GRCs were indicated.
Looks like a map: 9/10.
Channel NewsAsia
Colour combination: 3/10. Yellow, orange and purple?
Informativeness: 0/10. Where is the variation between the 4-member, 5-member, 6-member GRCs?
Looks like a map: 2/10. It looks like a child who just scribbled on the map.
PM Lee Hsien Loong
Colour combination: 0/10.
Informativeness: 10/10. Probably the most detailed map out there, defined accurately according to scale and measured in kilometres.
Looks like a map: 10/10. You can use this map to contest for the General Election.
The New Paper
Colour combination: 0/10, unless you consider colouring the sea blue as the map's highlight.
Informativeness: 2/10.
Looks like a map: 5/10.
Lianhe Zaobao
Colour combination: 7/10. ZB provided different shades of blue, yellow and pink to the SMCs and GRCs.
Informativeness: 9/10, if you can read Chinese words.
Looks like a map: 8/10.
Berita Harian
Colour combination: 9/10. The map provided different shades of blue and green to the SMCs and the different type of GRCs.
Informativeness: 8/10. Different types of GRCs were indicated.
Looks like a map: 7/10. Wait a minute. Did BH just copy from The Straits Times? Did you even translate the SMCs and GRCs for your Malay audience?
By the way, you can check out ours here.
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