GE2025 Overseas Votes Counted: Chee Soon Juan Wins More Votes Than PAP in Sembawang West

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Zhi Hao
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The overseas votes for the 2025 General Election (GE2025) were counted on 15 May 2025, almost two weeks after Polling Day.

While the final results of who won in each constituency remained unchanged, the vote percentages across several constituencies saw minor adjustments.

Sembawang West and Bukit Panjang Overseas Voting Patterns Reveal Interesting Results

In Sembawang West Single-Member Constituency (SMC), Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) chief Chee Soon Juan received more overseas votes than People’s Action Party (PAP) candidate Poh Li San.

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According to the Elections Department (ELD), 44 valid overseas votes were cast for the constituency, with 23 going to Dr Chee and 21 to Ms Poh.

This increases Dr Chee’s total votes to 10,564, still 1,435 lower than Ms Poh’s 11,999. His vote share rose marginally by 0.01% to 46.82%, compared to Ms Poh’s 53.18%.

Despite this small gain, one of Singapore’s most well-known opposition politicians, who has never been in Parliament, still lost his parliamentary bid.

Bukit Panjang SMC saw an unusual outcome with PAP’s Liang Eng Hwa and SDP’s Paul Tambyah receiving exactly the same number of overseas votes—36 each.

Nevertheless, Mr Liang still won with 61.38% of the total vote share, a slight drop from the previously announced 61.41%.

The overseas voting results were close in several other SMCs. In Jalan Kayu SMC, NTUC chief Ng Chee Meng obtained 33 overseas votes, just 3 more than Workers’ Party’s (WP) Andre Low.

This kept Mr Ng’s vote share steady at 51.47%.

In Tampines Changkat SMC, PAP’s Desmond Choo received 35 overseas votes—only one more than WP’s Kenneth Foo, causing Mr Choo’s vote share to dip by 0.01% to 56.16%.

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Overseas Votes Statistics and Impact on Final GE2025 Results

A total of 9,329 overseas votes were counted at the ELD in Novena on 15 May, in front of representatives from the various political parties.

Of these, 5,966 were cast in-person at ten overseas polling stations, out of 8,091 registered in-person voters. The remaining 3,363 were postal votes that were accepted for counting.

ELD reported that 17,237 Singaporeans had registered as overseas voters across all contested electoral divisions.

For postal voting, 7,808 out of 9,146 postal voters downloaded their ballots, but only 6,097 were received in Singapore by the deadline, with 3,363 accepted for counting.

The overseas votes largely followed the same pattern as the overall GE2025 results. In constituencies won by the PAP, they also won the overseas vote.

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In Hougang SMC, Aljunied GRC, and Sengkang GRC, which were won by the WP, the WP also garnered more overseas votes.

The National Solidarity Party (NSP) team contesting Tampines Group Representation Constituency (GRC) received zero overseas votes.

This team lost their deposits in this campaign, getting just 249 votes and 0.18% of the overall vote.

The People’s Power Party (PPP), which also contested Tampines GRC, received three overseas votes, bringing their total to 596 and 0.43% of the total vote—they too lost their deposit.

Some constituencies saw slight increases in vote share for incumbents, including Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC, Sembawang GRC, Aljunied GRC, and Sengkang GRC.

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In Marine Parade-Bradell Heights GRC, which had a walkover, there were 1,152 registered overseas voters.

With the addition of overseas votes, the total number of Singaporeans who voted in GE2025 increased to 2,438,610, with 42,945 rejected votes.

This brought the final turnout for GE2025 to 92.83% of the 2,627,026 registered electors in all contested electoral divisions.

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Zhi Hao
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