PAP comes out on top in West Coast-Jurong West, retains Pioneer

West Coast-Jurong West GRC: PAP 60.01%, PSP 39.99%; Pioneer SMC: PAP 65.42%, PSP 34.58%

- Hariz Baharudin Correspondent Eunice Quek and Benson Ang Correspondent

The PAP has come out on top in West Coast-Jurong West GRC with 60.01 per cent of the vote against the PSP's team, which included its chair Tan Cheng Bock, a former PAP stalwart.

The PAP also emerged victorious in Pioneer SMC, where it retained the constituency with 65.42 per cent of the vote.

During the 2020 General Election, the PAP secured 51.68 per cent of the vote in a tight race with the PSP in the former West Coast GRC. As the "best losers" of GE2020, two PSP candidates—party chief Leong Mun Wai and first vice-chair Hazel Poa—were offered seats in Parliament as Non-Constituency MPs (NCMPs).

In the latest rematch in the five-man GRC, the PAP received 88,347 votes, while the PSP team garnered 58,863 votes, equivalent to a 39.99 per cent share.

The PAP team was led by Minister for National Development Desmond Lee, 48. He took over as anchor minister following the departure of former transport minister S. Iswaran, who stepped down in 2024 after a corruption probe.

Joining Mr Lee were Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Finance and Education Shawn Huang, 42, and three-term MP Ang Wei Neng, 58. The line-up also included two new faces: orthopaedic surgeon Hamid Razak, 39, and lawyer Cassandra Lee, 33.

The PSP slate comprised party chairman Dr Tan, 85; Mr Leong, 65; and Ms Poa, 54; and newcomers Sumarleki Amjah, 53, and Sani Ismail, 49.

In the case of Pioneer SMC, PAP's labour unionist Patrick Tay, 53, defeated PSP's Stephanie Tan, 37, who was contesting her first election. He secured 15,323 votes, or 65.42 per cent of the votes, while Ms Tan received 8,101, or 34.58 per cent.