GE2025: Demographic shifts, three-way race put Potong Pasir in the spotlight

Potong Pasir SMC, which includes the Bidadari estate, is now younger, more populated and contested than before. PHOTO: ST FILE

Gabrielle Chan

UPDATED Apr 30, 2025, 08:49 PM

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SINGAPORE - Once the smallest single-member constituency in Singapore, former opposition stronghold Potong Pasir has evolved in recent years – it is younger, more populated and at this general election, more contested.

Three candidates will battle for the single seat on May 3 – PAP’s Alex Yeo, Singapore People’s Party’s (SPP) Williamson Lee, and People’s Alliance for Reform’s (PAR) Lim Tean.

In the 2020 General Election, the ward had just 18,551 voters. Today, that number has surged to 30,971 – a 67 per cent jump – according to data released by the Elections Department. Of the 15 SMCs in this election, only one, Bukit Panjang (33,596), has more voters than Potong Pasir.

About 61.5 per cent of its residents are aged 45 and below, compared with about 54.3 per cent in 2020 – according to The Straits Times’ analysis using Department of Statistics data dated June 2024 – marking a demographic shift in a constituency once known for its greying population.