PAP beats WP by wider margin in closely watched East Coast

Mountbatten seat also remains with PAP, as new face Gho Sze Kee wins

- Joyce Lim Senior Correspondent and Sarah Stanley

The PAP has retained East Coast GRC with 58.76 per cent of the vote, in a closely watched match-up against the WP.

The ruling party also kept its hold on the single seat of Mountbatten.

In East Coast, the PAP's vote share is up from 2020's, when it won 53.39 per cent. This is the fifth election in a row that it has faced down the WP in East Coast GRC.

Of the 135,576 valid votes cast on May 3 for East Coast GRC, 79,664 went to the PAP. A total of 1,565 votes were rejected.

The PAP team was led by Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Edwin Tong, 55, alongside incumbents Senior Minister of State for National Development Tan Kiat How, 47, and Deputy Speaker Jessica Tan, 58.

The team also included new faces—former non-profit chief executive Hazlina Abdul Halim, 40, and former Agency for Integrated Care chief executive Dinesh Vasu Dash, 50.

The PAP's opponents were led by a WP stalwart, former Non-Constituency MP Yee Jenn Jong, 60.

The WP's team included IT professional Nathaniel Koh, 41, and three new faces—former US Navy security administrator Paris V. Parameswari, 51; lawyer Sufyan Mikhail Putra, 33; and payments expert Jasper Kuan, 46.