PAP keeps Chua Chu Kang for 4th straight term, wins Bukit Gombak

The PAP team led by Manpower Minister Tan See Leng has retained Chua Chu Kang GRC for a fourth consecutive term, winning 63.59 per cent of the valid votes against the PSP on May 3.

- Osmond Chia and Sharon Salim

The winning margin is higher than the 58.64 per cent of votes it received in the last election in 2020.

Meanwhile, the PAP's Ms Low Yen Ling secured the neighbouring Bukit Gombak SMC with 75.83 per cent of valid votes against the PSP's Harish Pillay.

Dr Tan, 60, who was deployed to Chua Chu Kang to replace Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong to lead the PAP team in a surprise move on Nomination Day, will enter his second term as an MP.

He leads lawyer and second-term MP Zhulkarnain Abdul Rahim, 44, and PAP newcomers Jeffrey Siow, 46, former permanent secretary at the Trade and Industry and Manpower ministries, and neuroscientist Choo Pei Ling, 38.

The team defeated a PSP team comprising lawyer Wendy Low, 48, stockbroker S. Nallakaruppan, 60, safety consultant A'bas Kasmani, 71, and former secretary-general of the Singapore Manufacturing Federation Lawrence Pek, 55.