WP's strategy for GE2025
Danson Cheong Assistant News Editor
The WP appears to have made a calculation that its best chances for electoral victory lie in fielding strong teams in Punggol GRC and Tampines GRC, instead of Marine Parade-Braddell Heights GRC.
The WP has contested in Marine Parade since the 2015 General Election.
This time, instead of fielding a team there - as some political pundits expected - it is diverting its firepower to Punggol and Tampines instead.
The party chose to field senior counsel Harpreet Singh Nehal in its Punggol slate and Dr Ong Lue Ping, a senior principal clinical psychologist, in its Tampines team.
One possible reason the WP has chosen not to field a team in Marine Parade-Braddell Heights GRC, could be due to electoral boundary changes announced in March.
Those changes saw MacPherson SMC absorbed into the new Marine Parade-Braddell Heights GRC.
In GE2020, the PAP polled strongly in MacPherson, with 71.74 per cent voting for Ms Tin Pei Ling.