Elections Dept removed 227 ads that broke the rules during GE2025

All ll parties in the polls had traditional election advertising material removed

- Ng Wei Kai Correspondent

The Elections Department (ELD) removed 227 pieces of political advertising that broke the rules during the May general election period.

All 1 parties which contested GE2025 had pieces of traditional election advertising - banners, flags or posters - removed between April 15, the day the Writ of Election was issued, and May 3, which was Polling Day.

The party with the most advertisements removed was Red Dot United with 60, followed by the Progress Singapore Party with 46.

The ruling PAP was next with 37, followed by the Singapore People’s Party with 33. The Workers’ Party had 13 removed, and the remaining parties had between one and 10 removed.

Independent candidate Jeremy Tan, who contested Mountbatten SMC, had six removed while Mr Darryl Lo, who ran as an independent in Radin Mas SMC, had none taken down.

Minister-in-charge of the Public Service Chan Chun Sing gave these numbers in a written parliamentary reply on Sept 26 in response to questions from WP MP He Ting Ru (Sengkang GRC).

He was responding on behalf of Prime Minister Lawrence Wong.

Ms He had asked how many complaints were received on the contravention of traditional election advertising rules and how many such complaints were investigated by ELD.

She also asked how many rectification notifications were issued and how many election ads were removed for each political party.