[SINGAPORE] The People’s Action Party (PAP) fended off Red Dot United (RDU) in the newly formed Jurong East-Bukit Batok GRC with 76.66 per cent of 129,593 valid votes.
Led by Minister for Sustainability and Environment Grace Fu, the PAP team clinched 99,345 of the votes against RDU’s 30,248. Rejected votes came to 3,193.
Other members of the team were Ministers of State Murali Pillai and Rahayu Mahzam, political newcomer David Hoe and Lee Hong Chuang, who contested in the Hougang seat in the last two elections.
They beat an RDU slate comprising former candidates Osman Sulaiman and Liyana Dhamirah, as well as newcomers Ben Puah, Marcus Neo and Harish Mohanadas.
RDU fielded the second-largest opposition slate in GE2025, with 15 candidates across three Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs) and two Single-Member Constituencies (SMCs).
Jurong East-Bukit Batok GRC was formed for GE2025, with the five-member constituency consisting of parts of Jurong GRC, Bukit Batok SMC, Yuhua SMC – which was helmed by PAP’s Fu – as well as Hong Kah North SMC.
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The former Jurong GRC was the PAP’s best-performing constituency in the past two elections. Led by current President Tharman Shanmugaratnam, it took 79.3 per cent of the vote in 2015 and 74.6 per cent in 2020.
Jurong Central SMC
PAP incumbent Xie Yao Quan also beat the RDU in the new single-seat ward of Jurong Central with 80.51 per cent of the vote.
Xie took 21,884 out of 27,182 valid votes cast, while Kala Manickam took 19.49 per cent or 5,298 of the votes. There were 531 rejected votes.
Jurong Central SMC is one of the six new single-seat wards resulting from the electoral boundaries review. It was carved out of the former Jurong GRC, as well as portions of the former Yuhua SMC.
Since entering politics in GE2020, Xie has been serving the Jurong Central ward within the former Jurong GRC.
Kala made a surprise appearance on Nomination Day to contest Jurong Central, after being previously tipped to be running for Jalan Kayu SMC. The specialist educator was pulled out of the ward to make way for Workers’ Party candidate Andre Low and avoid a three-way fight.
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