GE2025: What to expect on Nomination Day on Apr 23
PM Wong and the Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC team will file their papers at Jurong Pioneer Junior College; Yusof Ishak Secondary School will be where candidates for three hot seats will submit their papers
[SINGAPORE] Prospective candidates will head to nine nomination centres on Apr 23 to file their papers to stand in the upcoming general election.
This is the next step in the run-up to Polling Day on May 3, after Parliament was dissolved and the Writ of Election issued by President Tharman Shanmugaratnam on Tuesday (Apr 15).
There will be 33 electoral divisions in GE 2025: 18 Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs) and 15 Single-Member Constituencies, one more of each than in 2020. There will be 97 elected seats, up from 93 in 2020.
To stand for election, prospective candidates must submit their nomination papers at the nomination centre for the constituency they are contesting in, and do this by noon. Each candidate also has to pay an election deposit of S$13,500 by that cut-off time.
Each candidate or group of candidates must be accompanied by a proposer, a seconder and at least four assentors, whose names appear in the Register of Electors for the electoral division where they wish to run.
Nomination proceedings end at 12.30 pm, after which the nine-day campaigning period begins.
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The returning officer for GE2025 is the director-general of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, Han Kok Juan.
Hot seats
This will be Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s first electoral outing since taking the helm last year. He will contest Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC, for which he is one of the incumbent Members of Parliament (MPs).
He and his teammates Hany Soh, Zaqy Mohamad and Alex Yam will submit their papers at Jurong Pioneer Junior College.
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They are expected to face a team from the Singapore Democratic Party, comprising the party’s organising secretary Jufri Salim, founder of alternative news site Wake Up Singapore Ariffin Sha, theatre director Alec Tok, and former Progress Singapore Party (PSP) candidate Gigene Wong.
Meanwhile, Yusof Ishak Secondary School will be where the candidates for three hot GRCs – East Coast, Sengkang and Punggol – will gather.
The Workers’ Party (WP) is expected to face the People’s Action Party (PAP) in these three constituencies; Punggol GRC is newly formed from the split-up of Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC.
Candidates for Pasir Ris-Changi GRC will also submit their papers at Yusof Ishak Secondary School.
Another anticipated contest will be in the newly formed Marine Parade-Braddell Heights GRC, where the WP will face the incumbent PAP. The teams will submit their papers at Kong Hwa School.
The PAP team includes Manpower Minister Tan See Leng and Minister of State for Home Affairs and for National Development Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim. The remaining three candidates for this slate are to be confirmed.
Senior Counsel Harpreet Singh, one of WP’s new candidates, has been spotted in the constituency and could be fielded there.
Candidates for West Coast-Jurong West GRC will turn up at Nan Hua High School. The new GRC was formed from West Coast GRC, which the PAP won by the slimmest margin in 2020.
There, the PSP is expected to reprise its showdown with the PAP. The sitting team comprises National Development Minister Desmond Lee, Ang Wei Neng and Shawn Huang; they are expected to be fielded with new faces orthopaedic surgeon Hamid Razak and lawyer Cassandra Lee. The PSP has not confirmed its slate for the GRC.
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