The incumbent People’s Action Party (PAP) has won East Coast GRC with 53.41 per cent of votes.

PAP won 61,009 of the votes, while the Workers' Party (WP) lost with 46.59 per cent, 53,228 of the votes.

A total of 1,393 out of 115,630 votes were rejected.

The PAP team comprises Heng Swee Keat, Maliki Osman, Cheryl Chan, Jessica Tan, and new candidate Tan Kiat How.

The WP team is made up of Nicole Seah, Terence Tan, Foo Seck Guan, Dylan Ng and Abdul Shariff.

Past results

WP has been contesting at East Coast GRC since 2006.

In the 2015 General Election, WP's team, consisting of Leon Perera, Gerald Giam, Daniel Goh, and Mohamed Fairoz Shariff lost to the PAP's team led by Lim Swee Say.

They gained 39.27 per cent of the total votes in the election.

PAP

• 2011 General Election: 54.83 per cent
• 2015 General Election: 60.73 per cent
• 2020 General Election: 53.41 per cent

WP

• 2011 General Election: 45.17 per cent
• 2015 General Election: 39.27 per cent
• 2020 General Election: 46.59 per cent

PAP team

Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat is the anchor minister for the PAP team.

He replaced former Manpower Minister Lim Swee Say as the anchor minister for East Coast GRC.

Previously, Heng contested in Tampines GRC in 2015.

A "strategic surprise"

After the PAP unveiled Heng as its candidate for East Coast, WP chief Pritam Singh described it as a "strategic surprise".

Responding to a question about the party's strategy now that Heng is leading PAP's East Coast team, Pritam said that "obviously there was an element of strategic surprise on the part of the PAP".

He said he understands Heng went to the nomination centre about 15 minutes before the nomination closed, and that this "says something about the PAP's assessment of the WP team in East Coast".

Top photo via Heng Swee Keat on Facebook