GE2015: PAP win Marsiling-Yee Tee GRC
[Singapore] The People's Action Party (PAP) won the newly created Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC with 68.73 per cent of the valid votes. It defeated the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) which managed to garner 31.27 per cent of the vote share.
PAP got 68,485 votes while the SDP got 31,157.
The four-member PAP team for the newly-created GRC, jointly led by Halimah Yacob and Lawrence Wong, also comprised Ong Teng Koon and Alex Yam.
Against them, the SDP team included Bryan Lim, Damanhuri Abas, John Tan and Wong Souk Yee.
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