Elsewhere, polling districts in Tampines West and east of Bedok Reservoir, currently under the WP-run Aljunied GRC, will be moved to Tampines GRC.
This will affect about 3,900 electors, of which 2,100 are from existing condominiums in the area and 1,800 from the newly completed Tampines South HDB estates.
The electoral boundaries in Aljunied were last changed in 2011, when the PAP lost the constituency to WP – the first time a GRC was captured by an opposition party.
There are no changes to the electoral boundaries in the other WP constituencies of Sengkang GRC – which will remain a four-seater – and Hougang SMC.
In the 2020 GE, WP’s slate comprising lawyer He Ting Ru, equity research analyst Louis Chua, social activist and now-former member Raeesah Khan and associate professor of economics Jamus Lim came out on top with 52.13 per cent of votes.
They defeated a PAP team consisting of labour chief Ng Chee Meng, then minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, political office holders Lam Pin Min and Amrin Amin, as well as lawyer Raymond Lye.
WP has held Hougang since 1991, when former party chief Low Thia Khiang won the single seat with an almost 12 per cent swing in votes. Former NCMP Dennis Tan then successfully defended the traditional WP stronghold in 2020, winning 61.2 per cent of the votes.
