Sembawang West Single Member Constituency

Sembawang West
Single Member constituency for the Parliament of Singapore
Region	North Region, Singapore
Electorate	24,206
Current constituency
Created	2025;0 years ago (2025)
Seats	1
Party	People's Action Party
Member(s)	Poh Li San
Town Council	Sembawang
Created from	Sembawang GRC

Sembawang WestSingle Member Constituency is a Single Member Constituency (SMC) for the Parliament of Singapore. It is managed by Sembawang Town Council. The current Member of Parliament (MP) is Poh Li San from the governing People's Action Party (PAP).

History

Prior to the 2025 general election, Sembawang West SMC was carved from the Sembawang West division of Sembawang Group Representation Constituency (GRC), in order to reduce the number of voters in the GRC. At establishment, there were 24,153 registered voters within the SMC. ^{[1] [2]}

After the redrawing of electoral boundaries, Chee Soon Juan, the leader of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), said that he would contest Sembawang West SMC as Bukit Batok SMC, where he had previously contested, had been absorbed into the newly established Jurong East–Bukit Batok GRC. ^{[3] [4]} The National Solidarity Party (NSP) initially intended to contest the SMC but announced on 20 April that it would back out to avoid a three-way fight. ^[5]

On 22 April, Poh, the incumbent MP for the Sembawang West division, announced her candidacy for the SMC. ^[5] She proceeded to defeat Chee with over 53% of the vote. ^[6]

Chee would later miss out on becoming a non-constituency MP (NCMP) after Andre Low, Workers' Party (WP) candidate for Jalan Kayu SMC, and the WP team for Tampines GRC, outperformed him, respectively garnering 48.53% and 47.37% of the vote against victorious PAP candidates. ^[7]

Member of Parliament

Year	Member	Party
Formation
2025	Poh Li San		PAP

Elections

Note : Elections Department Singapore do not include rejected votes for calculation of candidate's vote share. Hence, the total of all candidates' vote share will be 100%.

Elections in 2020s

General Election 2025: Sembawang West ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PAP	Poh Li San	11,999	53.18
	SDP	Chee Soon Juan	10,564	46.82
Majority			1,435	6.36
Total valid votes			22,563	98.82
Rejected ballots			269	1.18
Turnout			22,832	94.32
Registered electors			24,206
	PAP win (new seat)

References

1. "GE2025: Six new SMCs created as the EBRC lays out changes to constituencies". CNA. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
2. "6 new SMCs for GE2025, five single seats gone". The Straits Times. 11 March 2025. ISSN   0585-3923 . Retrieved 12 March 2025.
3. "GE2025: Singapore Democratic Party chief Chee Soon Juan to contest in Sembawang West SMC". Channel NewsAsia. 23 March 2025. ISSN   0585-3923 . Retrieved 23 March 2025.
4. Koh, Fabian (11 March 2025). "GE2025: Extensive changes to electoral boundaries due to population shifts; only 5 GRCs, 4 SMCs left intact". CNA. Retrieved 11 March 2025.
5. Begum, Shabana (22 April 2025). "GE2025: Poh Li San to contest new Sembawang West SMC, against SDP's Chee Soon Juan". The Straits Times . ISSN   0585-3923 . Retrieved 22 April 2025.
6. "GE2025: Poh Li San edges out Chee Soon Juan in Sembawang West SMC with 53.19% of the vote". The Straits Times. 4 May 2025. ISSN   0585-3923 . Retrieved 1 August 2025.
7. Ng, Wei Kai (4 May 2025). "GE2025: WP to get two NCMP seats in the next Parliament, on top of 10 elected MPs". Yahoo News (republication from The Straits Times). Retrieved 1 August 2025.
8. "Statement of Poll for the Electoral Division of Sembawang West" (PDF). 16 May 2025.