SINGAPORE - The Straits Times looks at the five most hotly contested constituencies of the 2020 General Election, which took place on Friday :This year's West Coast PAP team was helmed by Minister for Communications and Information S. Iswaran, 58, who has now been re-elected in six straight general elections.
The GRC was billed as one of the tightest contests in the election, pitting a team led by Dr Tan - a retired general practitioner - against his former party. He ran a campaign calling for greater transparency, and the need to put workers and businesses first. Traditionally viewed as a PAP stronghold, West Coast GRC absorbed part of Chua Chu Kang GRC and Hong Kah North SMC for this election and was expanded from four to five members from the last election.In possibly the biggest upset of the election, the Workers' Party team consisting of lawyer He Ting Ru, 37, economics professor Jamus Lim, 44, social enterprise founder Raeesah Khan, 26, and equity research analyst Louis Chua Kheng Wee, 33, won the new Sengkang GRC.
Besides Punggol East and part of Sengkang West, the four-member group representation constituency that was created after electoral boundaries were redrawn in March, also takes in the Sengkang Central ward of Pasir Ris-Punggol SMC. Ms Raeesah apologised that same weekend, joined by WP leaders Pritam Singh and Sylvia Lim as well as her Sengkang teammates.The PAP's vote share in this GRC is down from 2015, when it won 60.73 per cent.
They were up against a slate led by lawyer Terence Tan, 49, the WP's deputy organising secretary. His team also included Mr Dylan Ng, 44, Mr Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim, 54; Mr Kenneth Foo, 43; and Ms Nicole Seah, 33. The five members had run a campaign championing diversity in Parliament and"a balanced system", among other issues.
This year's contest between the ruling party's Mr Liang Eng Hwa and SDP chairman Professor Paul Tambyah - an infectious diseases expert who has criticised the Government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic - had been closely watched and the constituency touted as a hot seat. Comprising about 160 Housing Board blocks and three condominiums, Bukit Panjang has 35,497 registered voters.
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