By Nur Ashikin Abdul Aziz
SINGAPORE, May 4 (Bernama) -- Singapore’s People’s Action Party (PAP) has successfully retained its supermajority in the 2025 General Election (GE2025), winning 87 out of 97 parliamentary seats.
The PAP secured a commanding win with 65.57 per cent of the national vote, marking an improvement of more than four percentage points over its 2020 election result.
The PAP secured five seats uncontested in the Marine Parade–Braddell Heights Group Representation Constituency (GRC) on nomination day.
The resounding victory signals a strong mandate for caretaker Prime Minister and PAP secretary-general Lawrence Wong, who led the party into a general election for the first time.
The party fielded candidates in all 33 electoral divisions – 15 Single Member Constituencies (SMCs) and 18 GRCs.
In the 2020 General Election, the PAP won 83 of the 93 seats, securing 61.2 per cent of the vote share.
Wong’s team at Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC successfully defended their seats with 73.46 per cent of the vote, an improvement over the 63.18 per cent they received in the previous election.
“It’s been a very humbling experience, working with all of you, interacting and engaging with all of you. We are grateful once again for your strong mandate, and we will honour it,” Wong said, addressing supporters at Yio Chu Kang Stadium after the official result for his GRC was announced.
The main opposition Workers’ Party (WP) failed to make further gains this year but successfully retained its 10 seats in the constituencies it won in GE2020 – Hougang SMC, Sengkang GRC, and Aljunied GRC.
Other opposition parties, namely Red Dot United, Progress Singapore Party, People's Alliance for Reform, Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), People's Power Party, National Solidarity Party, Singapore United Party, Singapore People's Party, and Singapore Democratic Alliance, ended their campaigns without winning any seats.
It was also another disappointing result for veteran opposition figure and SDP secretary-general Dr Chee Soon Juan, who has been part of the country’s political landscape since 1992.
He lost to the PAP’s Poh Li San in the newly created Sembawang West SMC.
Meanwhile, the two independent candidates contesting Radin Mas SMC and Mountbatten SMC saved their S$13,500 deposits after securing at least 12.5 per cent of the vote.
The final result was announced by Returning Officer Han Kok Juan for Tampines GRC on Sunday (4 May) at 1.50 am.
-- BERNAMA
