GE2025: PAP improves on lead in Chua Chu Kang GRC with 63.59% of votes
PAP’s Tan See Leng made a last-minute move to Chua Chu Kang to take over from DPM Gan, who became the anchor minister for Punggol GRC
[SINGAPORE] The People’s Action Party (PAP) has retained Chua Chu Kang GRC, winning 63.59 per cent of the vote.
It secured 55,000 votes to the Progress Singapore Party’s (PSP) 31,488 votes. Some 1,189 votes were rejected.
This was a wider win than in the 2020 General Election (GE), when the PAP team took 58.64 per cent of the vote against the PSP’s 41.36 per cent.
The PAP team for GE2025 was led by Manpower Minister Tan See Leng and comprised former senior civil servant Jeffrey Siow, neuroscientist Dr Choo Pei Ling, and incumbent Zhulkarnain Abdul Rahim.
Tan, who was expected to helm Marine Parade-Braddell Heights GRC, made a last-minute move to Chua Chu Kang GRC on Nomination Day. This was to take over from Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong, who became the anchor minister for the newly created Punggol GRC.
The PSP’s team comprised Lawrence Pek, former secretary-general of the Singapore Manufacturing Federation; technology lawyer Wendy Low; PSP second vice-chairman and business consultant A’bas Kasmani; and investment specialist S Nallakaruppan.
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Except for Pek who is a first-time candidate, the rest of the PSP team also contested GE2020.
Chua Chu Kang has 93,522 voters, down from the 106,632 voters in 2020, according to the Elections Department.
Estates in Tengah were added to the constituency, which gave up parts of Hillview and Bukit Gombak to Bukit Gombak SMC.
Candidates for Chua Chu Kang GRC had focused on job-loss measures, with PSP’s Pek proposing a universal minimum wage that PAP’s Siow said was more political than practical.
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