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At the last polls, WP made a play for Marine Parade GRC, but in 2025, in what was a last-minute Nomination Day surprise, WP did not field a team to contest the newly formed Marine Parade-Braddell Heights GRC. 
A first walkover general election since 2011, when Tanjong Pagar GRC went uncontested & PAP won in a walkover.

2. Surprise moves by heavyweights. 
Ruling PAP made a surprise move by diverting Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong from Chua Chu Kang GRC, fielding him in Punggol GRC instead. The ruling PAP made a surprise move by diverting Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong from Chua Chu Kang GRC, fielding him in Punggol GRC instead. Mr Gan leads the PAP team that also comprises Dr Janil Puthucheary, Ms Sun Xueling and Ms Yeo Wan Ling. PAP, likely anticipating a tough fight, moved Mr Gan to Punggol GRC to bolster its chances.

Be4 Nomination Day, pundits tipped East Coast GRC to emerge as one of hottest election battlegrounds, predicting WP would field one of its big names in the constituency. The WP team in East Coast is led by former Non-Constituency MP Yee Jenn Jong, 60. The WP will face off against a PAP team led by Culture, Community and Youth Minister Edwin Tong, 55.

Mean...While Manpower Minister Tan See Leng moved from Marine Parade-Braddell Heights GRC to replace Mr Gan in Chua Chu Kang. The split-second switch-up came at the last minute, after Dr Tan was seen at 9.30am at PAP’s Mountbatten branch, where the Marine Parade-Braddell Heights team met earlier in the morning.

Tampines GRC, Sembawang GRC and Ang Mo Kio GRC, as well as Radin Mas SMC and Potong Pasir SMC, will have multi-cornered fights.bIn Tampines GRC, PAP team will face off against WP, National Solidarity Party (NSP) and People’s Power Party (PPP) in a four-cornered fight.

Social and Family Development Minister Masagos Zulkifli, 62, helms Tampines GRC team also comprises Senior Minister of State for Manpower and Sustainability and Environment Koh Poh Koon, 53, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Transport & Sustainability and the Environment Baey Yam Keng, 54, and two new faces – former chief of army David Neo, 47, and Dr Charlene Chen, 43, an asst professor of marketing at Nanyang Technological University.

Senior counsel Harpreet Singh and three other new faces were confirmed on the WP ticket for Punggol GRC. will face off at the May 3 polls against a PAP team headed by Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong in very newest group representation constituency.

Elsewhere, WP vice-chairman Faisal Manap has left the party’s Aljunied GRC crown jewel to contest Tampines GRC with four others, pitting the team against the PAP and two other opposition parties in a four-cornered fight.