Chiam See Tong, who recently founded Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) a year prior to the by-election, expressed interest but withdrew later and backed Jeyaretnam.

[4] Analysis cited that Pang's defeat was the lack of public exposure (or usage of Anson's grassroots leaders during his campaign) as compared to Jeyaretnam who had stood in several general and by-elections.

Another issue surrounding the campaign was that residents in the Blair Plain area of the constituency were unhappy that they were not being given priority for HDB flats when their homes were being demolished to make way for a new Port of Singapore Authority container complex, and some voters may have used the by-election as an opportunity to express discontent regarding this.

[5] Following the by-election, Pang announced his retirement of politics, though he was offered a place in the next election, he ultimately declined, making him the first PAP candidate to never enter parliament.

Ever since the by-election, PAP had never again attain a government monopoly of all the seats despite being the dominant party in Singapore politics.