The EBRC on Tuesday even recommended that Marine Parade GRC absorb some electoral districts from Potong Pasir SMC, given the high population growth in the latter due to new people cover in the Bidadari house.
Marine Parade GRC should also take in MacPherson SMC and an opposite voting area from Mountbatten SMC, staying as a five-seater GRC, the council said.
The district was again a stronghold for the former gathering, with former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong at its reins.  ,
He retired from politics in 2020 and the PAP’s performance weakened – dropping to 57.74 per cent of the ballot from 64.07 per share in 2015.
In that epidemic vote, a PAP team comprising former Speaker of Parliament Tan Chuan-Jin, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Edwin Tong, Minister for Manpower Tan See Leng, existing Speaker Seah Kian Peng and Mr Fahmi Aliman emerged as finalists over a WP group led by former NCMP Yee Jenn Jong.  ,
Somewhere, polling towns in Tampines West and east of Bedok Reservoir, now under the WP-run Aljunied GRC, may be moved to Tampines GRC, the EBRC statement said.
This may influence about 3, 900 votes, of which 2, 100 are from existing apartments in the area and 1, 800 from the recently completed Tampines South HDB lands.  ,
The political boundaries in Aljunied were past changed in 2011, when the PAP lost the district to WP- the first time a GRC was captured by an opposition group.
There are no modifications to the political boundaries in the other WP divisions of Sengkang GRC– which may be a four-seater – and Hougang SMC.
In the 2020 GE, WP’s stone comprising attorney He Ting Ru, capital research scientist Louis Chua, social advocate and now-former part Raeesah Khan and associate professor of economics Jamus Lim came out on top with 52.13 per share of votes.
They defeated a PAP group consisting of labour key Ng Chee Meng, next secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office, social office buyers Lam Pin Min and Amrin Amin, as well as attorney Raymond Lye.
WP has held Hougang since 1991, when past group key Low Thia Khiang won the second seat with an almost 12 per cent jump in seats. Previous NCMP Dennis Tan next successfully defended the standard WP enclave in 2020, winning 61.2 per share of the vote.  ,
The state has accepted the EBRC’s comments and will apply them at the next General Election.