Overview

• Candidates from 11 political parties filed nomination papers on April 23, marking the start of a nine-day campaign leading to the May 3 polls.
• Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong will lead the PAP team in the newly created Punggol GRC, facing a Workers’ Party slate led by senior counsel Harpreet Singh.
• Tampines GRC is set for a four-way contest involving the PAP, Workers’ Party, National Solidarity Party, and People’s Power Party, intensifying competition in this traditional PAP stronghold.
• Marine Parade–Braddell Heights GRC was uncontested, granting the PAP a walkover victory—the first since 2011.
• Senior political figures Teo Chee Hean and Heng Swee Keat have retired, while Prime Minister Lawrence Wong faces his first electoral test as PAP leader.