GE2025: WP maintains grip on Sengkang GRC, defeats PAP with 56.31% of votes

[SINGAPORE] The Workers’ Party (WP) has retained Sengkang GRC against the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP), with 56.31 per cent of the votes.

This is a more than four percentage-point improvement over the party’s vote share in the last election, when the team won with a narrower margin of 52.12 per cent of the votes against the PAP.

The WP team comprises incumbents He Ting Ru, Jamus Lim and Louis Chua, as well as Abdul Muhaimin Abdul Malik, who replaced former MP Raeesah Khan.

They were up against a PAP team comprising former office-holder Lam Pin Min and newcomers Bernadette Giam, Theodora Lai and Elmie Nekmat. 

In the 2020 General Election, the WP team of first-time candidates triumphed over a PAP team including two officeholders – Lam and labour chief Ng Chee Meng – in the newly created Group Representation Constituency.

Khan resigned from the party in 2021, after it was discovered that she lied in Parliament regarding allegations that the police mishandled a sexual assault case.

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The incident led to a Committee of Privileges investigation, and the committee later found her guilty of abuse of parliamentary privilege.

Khan’s lie in Parliament, however, did not feature in the earlier nine-day campaign period. Instead, both the WP and PAP candidates focused on municipal issues and what they can bring to refresh the estates.

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