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4-MEMBER GRCs (continued) Marsiling-Yew Tee 107,527 voters West Coast 99,236 voters PAP PAP Lawrence Wong, 42 Ong Teng Koon, 38 Alex Yam, 34 Halimah Yacob, 61 Lim Hng Kiang, 61 S. Iswaran, 53 Foo Mee Har, 49 Patrick Tay, 43 SDP RP Bryan Lim, 38 John Tan, 54 Damanhuri Abas, 45 Wong Souk Yee, 56 Andy Zhu, 32 Darren Soh, 46 Kenneth Jeyaretnam, Noraini Yunus, 47 56 • This is the only wholly new GRC this election, created in response to a slew of new public housing • Stretching from Tuas to Telok Blangah, West Coast GRC covers one of the greatest geographical spans, projects in the north. with its wards seen as having little common identity. • Though untested, the GRC covers northern areas generally viewed to be supportive of the PAP. • With either walkovers or large margins for the PAP since it was formed in 1997, the GRC is seen as a safe seat for the PAP. The PAP took 66.6 per cent of the vote here in 2011. 5-MEMBER GRCs Aljunied 148,024 voters Bishan-Toa Payoh 129,850 voters PAP PAP Yeo Guat Kwang, Victor Lye, 53 Shamsul Kamar, K. Muralidharan Chua Eng Leong, Ng Eng Hen, 56 Josephine Teo, Chong Kee Saktiandi Chee Hong 54 43 Pillai, 47 44 47 Hiong, 49 Supaat, 41 Tat, 41 WP SPP Low Thia Khiang, Sylvia Lim, 50 Chen Show Mao, Muhamad Faisal Pritam Singh, 39 Benjamin Hamim Aliyas, Law Kim Hwee, Abdillah Bryan Long, 37 58 54 Abdul Manap, Pwee, 47 50 55 Zamzuri, 30 40 • It made history in 2011 as the rst GRC to be won by an opposition party. The WP took 54.7 per cent • It has the highest share of PAP newcomers apart from Aljunied GRC, with three out of ve candidates of the vote, a defeat for the PAP which saw two Cabinet ministers lose their seats. being new faces. • All ve WP MPs are defending their seats. The PAP team is the only one without an anchor minister. • Opposition veteran Chiam See Tong left Potong Pasir to contest there in 2011, getting 43.1 per cent of the vote to the PAP’s 56.9 per cent. Mr Chiam is not running in this GE. Jurong 130,428 voters Marine Parade 146,087 voters PAP PAP Tharman Desmond Lee, Tan Wu Meng, Ang Wei Neng, Rahayu Mahzam, Tan Chuan-Jin, Goh Chok Tong, Seah Kian Peng, Fatimah Lateef, Edwin Tong, 46 Shanmugaratnam, 39 40 48 35 46 74 53 49 58 SINGFIRST WP Tan Peng Ann, Wong Soon David Foo Ming Sukdeu Singh, Wong Chee Wai, Yee Jenn Jong, Terence Tan, 44 Dylan Ng, 40 Firuz Khan, 30 He Ting Ru, 32 67 Hong, 57 Jin, 51 64 44 50 • Helmed by Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, it saw the PAP’s second-best • It saw the PAP’s second-slimmest winning margin in 2011 and is expected to see another close ght, performance in a GRC in 2011, with 67 per cent of the vote. with the WP contesting there for the rst time. The PAP took 56.6 per cent in 2011. • It lost Bukit Batok ward but gained Clementi from West Coast GRC in the recent boundary changes. • It has lost MacPherson and gained the former single seat of Joo Chiat, which the PAP took by a margin of just 388 votes in 2011..

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