Election spotlight: Will PAP’s grip hold in newly created Jurong East-Bukit Batok GRC?

SINGAPORE – Jurong GRC, long regarded as a stronghold of the PAP, will disappear from the electoral map in its current form.Its 132,272 voters will be redistributed across multiple constituencies, with the majority – 62,424, or about 47 per cent – forming the core of the newly created Jurong East-Bukit Batok GRC.This five-member group representation constituency, which will also absorb all of Bukit Batok SMC and parts of Yuhua SMC and Hong Kah North SMC, will have a total of 142,510 voters.The remaining voters from Jurong GRC will be divided among three other constituencies: the new West Coast-Jurong West GRC, the new Jurong Central SMC, and the existing Holland-Bukit Timah GRC.Jurong GRC has consistently been the People’s Action Party’s best-performing constituency in recent elections, securing a commanding 79.29 per cent of the vote in the 2015 General Election and 74.61 per cent in the 2020 General Election.The formation of Jurong East-Bukit Batok GRC throws up questions about how t...