GE2025: PAP wins Ang Mo Kio GRC with 78.95% in 3-cornered fight against SUP, PPP

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SINGAPORE - The PAP team led by Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong secured a resounding victory in Ang Mo Kio GRC, garnering 78.95 per cent of the votes against the Singapore United Party (SUP) and People’s Power Party (PPP).

SUP and PPP received 10.84 per cent and 10.21 per cent of the votes, respectively, in the polls on May 3. 

The PAP’s result is a 7.04 percentage point increase from the last contest in 2020, when it won with 71.91 per cent of the votes against the Reform Party’s (RP) 28.09 per cent.

This is also its best performance in the constituency since the first contest was held in 2006.

Its previous best result was in 2015, when the team led by then Prime Minister Lee defeated RP with 78.64 per cent of the votes.

SM Lee said in a speech to supporters at Yio Chu Kang Stadium on May 4: “Thank you very much for supporting me and my team and giving us your mandate again, to represent you, to work for you, to do our best for you, for Ang Mo Kio and for Singapore.

“Many things are happening in the world. We have many worries. With the PAP, we can work with you, with your trust and your full support and cooperation. We will do the best for our families, for our country and for our future.”

He added that the GRC will work with the Kebun Baru, Yio Chu Kang and Jalan Kayu SMCs as one big family.

“And together, we will make Ang Mo Kio an even better place to live, work and play, and Singapore an even better place to call home and to be proud of for many, many more years to come,” he said.

The largest of the 18 group representation constituencies with 161,499 electors, Ang Mo Kio GRC was

contested by three parties for the first time

since it was created in 1991.

The PAP team includes former civil servant Jasmin Lau, 42; financial technology firm chief executive Victor Lye, 63; as well as incumbent Ang Mo Kio GRC MPs Darryl David, 54, and Nadia Ahmad Samdin, 35.

SM Lee, 73, who

stepped down in May 2024

after 20 years as prime minister, has represented the Teck Ghee ward in the GRC for 41 years, after being first elected to Parliament in 1984.

Ms Lau is a newcomer, while Mr Lye was part of the losing PAP teams in Aljunied GRC in the last two elections.

The SUP slate for Ang Mo Kio includes the party’s secretary-general Andy Zhu, 42, and Ms Noraini Yunus, 56, who both contested in the GRC under the RP banner in the 2020 General Election.

The other members are party chairman Ridhuan Chandran, 53; flight attendant Nigel Ng, 39; and Dr Vincent Ng, 52, who was part of the National Solidarity Party team that stood in Tampines GRC in 2020.

The PPP team, which is contesting in Ang Mo Kio for the first time, is helmed by party treasurer William Lim, 47; retired civil servant Martinn Ho, 64; safety coordinator Thaddeus Thomas, 43; information technology engineer Samuel Lee, 33; and horticulturist Heng Zheng Dao, 24.

Ang Mo Kio GRC was uncontested until 2006, when the PAP defeated a WP team. In the last three general elections, the PAP won by comfortable margins against the RP.

Both SUP and PPP will lose their election deposits for not securing more than 12.5 per cent of the votes.

Speaking to the media after the sample vote count was confirmed, SUP’s Mr Zhu said the party is not too concerned about losing its deposit and will continue to reach out to voters in Ang Mo Kio for the next five years.

“This is a long-term battle. It’s not just for today, and it will not be over after tonight,” he said.

PAP wins in Kebun Baru, Yio Chu Kang

Over in Kebun Baru SMC, the PAP’s Mr Henry Kwek claimed victory with 68.5 per cent of the votes against the PSP’s Mr Tony Tan.

Speaking to his residents, Mr Kwek said: “Tonight, we celebrate, but tomorrow we’ll get back to work, because the real work has always been about you, our people of Kebun Baru, for caring for the elderly, for supporting our seniors, empowering our youth, and building a community where no one is left behind, and bringing our people’s voice to Parliament.”

The SMC, which has 22,263 electors, was part of Nee Soon GRC in 2015.

Mr Kwek, 49, who is the chief executive of an investment firm, had been in charge of Kebun Baru since he was elected with the PAP’s Nee Soon team in 2015. 

In 2020, he was fielded as the PAP candidate for the newly carved-out Kebun Baru SMC, and won with a vote share of 62.92 per cent against the PSP’s Mr Kumaran Pillai.

His opponent Mr Tan, 55, has been a volunteer with the PSP since the party was founded in 2019. 

A former Singapore Armed Forces scholarship holder with an engineering background, he is married to PSP’s first vice-chairwoman Hazel Poa.

He and his wife first joined the RP, but resigned in 2011 due to disagreements with its leaders.

They then joined the National Solidarity Party and were fielded as candidates in Chua Chu Kang GRC in the election that year, losing to the PAP team led by Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong. 

In Yio Chu Kang SMC, the PAP’s Mr Yip Hon Weng retained his single seat.

The 48-year-old, the former group chief of the Silver Generation Office under the Agency for Integrated Care, won 78.73 per cent of the votes against the People’s Alliance for Reform’s Dr Michael Fang, a 48-year-old health sciences lecturer at a private college.

In the last election in 2020, Mr Yip, then a newcomer, secured 60.82 per cent of the votes against the PSP’s Kayla Low, when the single-member constituency was carved out of Ang Mo Kio GRC that year.

Dr Fang contested as a Peoples Voice candidate in Jalan Besar GRC in 2020, along with PV founder Lim Tean, Mr Leong Sze Hian and Mr Nor Azlan Sulaiman. The PAP team led by current Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo won with 65.36 per cent of the votes. 

The SMC has 25,410 electors.

Calling it a “good result”, Mr Yip said: “It has shown that our hard work over the past five years has borne fruit, and I look forward to serving my residents for the next five years, improving the estate and speaking up more in Parliament on their behalf.”