SINGAPORE - The Sept 11 General Election will see 181 candidates competing for 89 seats in Parliament. Of the candidates, more than 70 are new faces to the electorate. We zoom in on seven new faces to watch:

1. CHERYL CHAN, 38, engineer

PAP candidate for Fengshan SMC

Who is she:

A long-time PAP activist, Ms Chan has been volunteering for more than 10 years in Fengshan ward. She is single.

She's someone to watch because:

New face in a hot seat. It will be interesting to see if she can hold her own in the face of competition from the Workers' Party candidate, lawyer Dennis Tan. She is also the first new PAP candidate to be fielded in a new SMC in nearly three decades.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong described her as someone who exuded quiet confidence at her candidate interview and is "ready for any opposition parachutists".

What she cares about:

She hopes to campaign for more help for the elderly and for children from less privileged backgrounds.

In her own words (in Mandarin):

"Orh luak is not my favourite local food, but laksa. And at the Block 85 food centre, bak chor mee is the best dish, not orh luak."

That was her riposte to WP chairman Sylvia Lim's Instagram post on the "heavenly" taste of orh luak (oyster omelette) in Fengshan, which had fed speculation that she might contest the ward.

2. HE TING RU, 32, lawyer