‘We never take your support for granted’, says PSP’s Tan Cheng Bock after losses in GE2025
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PSP founder and chairman Tan Cheng Bock acknowledged that the party had gone through a “rough night”.
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SINGAPORE - The opposition PSP’s founder and chairman Tan Cheng Bock has thanked his supporters following the party’s GE2025 losses.
In his first remarks after the party lost all six constituencies it contested, he acknowledged on May 4 that the party had gone through a “rough night”.
“To those who voted PSP, we offer our deepest and most heartfelt thanks. We never take your support for granted,” he wrote in a Facebook post.
“I share your hurt and disappointment... Together, we stood not just against political opponents, but against an entire machinery who came at us with boundary line changes and limitless resources. And yet, you brought courage, heart and an unquenchable spirit,” he said.
For those who did not vote for PSP, Dr Tan said the party respects their choice and pledges to work harder to earn their trust in the future.
He also congratulated Minister for National Development Desmond Lee and his team for winning, and said that Mr Lee had conducted his campaign admirably.
“My team and I offer our sincere congratulations for your electoral success. I especially thank you for your gracious message to PSP last night, for ‘putting up a strong contest, for raising good ideas, and for engaging with us for a better Singapore’,” wrote Dr Tan.
Dr Tan’s team – which included PSP chief Leong Mun Wai and party vice-chair Hazel Poa – contested West Coast-Jurong West GRC
PSP said during the campaign that the 2025 General Election will likely be the last one that Dr Tan, 85, will contest.
The party had fielded 13 candidates in six constituencies, and obtained between 24.17 per cent and 39.99 per cent of the vote shares. Besides West Coast-Jurong West GRC, it also contested Chua Chu Kang GRC and the Pioneer, Bukit Gombak, Kebun Baru and Marymount SMCs.
The results also mean PSP will lose its parliamentary presence, since Non-Constituency MP seats are given to the top losers in the polls – a title that now belongs to the WP
Dr Tan called on its young supporters to not lose heart. “Today, we tend to our political wounds. But in time, those wounds will heal.
“And the scars we carry will not be marks of defeat, but lasting reminders that we dared to stand up, we dared to speak out, and together, we made sacrifices – not just for ourselves, but for the common good of all Singaporeans.”
