SINGAPORE: The People’s Action Party’s (PAP) Sitoh Yih Pin has retained his Potong Pasir seat with 60.69 per cent of the vote against the 39.31 per cent garnered by the Singapore People’s Party’s (SPP) Jose Raymond.
Mr Sitoh got 11,232 votes and Mr Raymond 7,275 votes, with 278 rejected ballots. Mr Sitoh’s margin of victory is narrower by nearly six percentage points than in the 2015 General Election.
AdvertisementAdvertisementThis is his fifth time running in the Single Member Constituency, and the first time he is up against an opponent who is not from the Chiam family.
[h=3]GE2020 live: Polls in Singapore close after extension of voting hours[/h]Mr Raymond, 48, became SPP chairman last November, taking over from Mrs Lina Chiam, the wife of opposition stalwart Chiam See Tong.
A first-time candidate, he had appealed to Singaporeans to vote for a “new dawn” with more political competition.
AdvertisementAdvertisementOn his part, Mr Sitoh, 56, promised to take care of “three generations” of residents in Potong Pasir.
Potong Pasir SMC was, for nearly 30 years, served by Mr Chiam. One of the longest-serving opposition MPs in Singapore, he held on to Potong Pasir for six terms from 1984 to 2011.
In the 2011 General Election, Mr Chiam headed a team to contest Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC, while Mrs Chiam ran in Potong Pasir.
She narrowly lost to Mr Sitoh in 2011, with 49.64 per cent of the vote. In 2015, Mr Sitoh widened the gap, winning 66.39 per cent of the votes cast.
While Potong Pasir’s electoral boundaries were changed for the first time in three decades this time, it remains Singapore’s smallest constituency with 19,740 voters.
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