GE2025: PAP romps home in four SMCs contested by PSP, including newly formed Bukit Gombak
The other single-seat wards are Marymount – where the PAP’s vote share rises to 71% – Kebun Baru and Pioneer
[SINGAPORE] The People’s Action Party (PAP) swept all four single-seat wards where it was pitted against the Progress Singapore Party (PSP).
In newly created Bukit Gombak SMC, PAP’s Low Yen Ling defeated PSP’s Harish Pillay with 75.83 per cent of the votes. The PSP bagged 24.17 per cent of the 23,508 valid votes cast.
Low has helmed the Bukit Gombak ward since entering politics in 2011. The new Single-Member Constituency (SMC) was formed after it was carved out of the Bukit Gombak and Hillview estates in Chua Chu Kang GRC.
In Marymount SMC, PAP incumbent Gan Siow Huang beat PSP’s Jeffrey Khoo with a vote share of 70.70 per cent, against PSP’s 29.30 per cent of the 21,031 valid votes cast. This is a repeat victory for Gan against a PSP candidate in Marymount. In 2020, she defeated former PSP member Ang Yong Guan with a vote share of 55.04 per cent.
Meanwhile, PAP labour MP Patrick Tay retained his seat in Pioneer SMC with 65.42 per cent of the votes, defeating PSP new face Stephanie Tan, a homemaker and former civil servant. She secured 34.58 per cent of the 23,424 valid votes.
This is higher than Tay’s vote share in 2020, when he took 61.98 per cent of the votes in a three-way fight against PSP’s Lim Cher Hong and independent candidate Cheang Peng Wah.
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In Kebun Baru SMC, PAP incumbent Henry Kwek scored 68.50 per cent of the votes cast, against PSP’s Tony Tan’s 31.50 per cent. This was an improvement from Kwek’s GE2020 showing of 62.92 per cent against PSP’s Kumaran Pillai.
The ward has consistently outperformed the national vote share in the last few elections.
The PSP fielded a total of 13 candidates across six constituencies in this election, down from 24 in GE2020.In addition to Kebun Baru, Bukit Gombak, Marymount and Pioneer SMCs, the opposition party also contested in the Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs) of Chua Chu Kang and West Coast-Jurong West.
Although the PSP did not win any seats in 2020, its strong performance in West Coast GRC earned it two Non-Constituency Member of Parliament seats, which were taken up by Leong Mun Wai and Hazel Poa.
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