Major changes to electoral boundaries for upcoming GE sparks uproar among opposition

The Electoral Boundaries Review Committee (EBRC)’s significant changes to Singapore’s electoral map ahead of the upcoming General Election (GE) has sparked uproar among opposition parties.

Of the 33 electoral divisions, only five Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs) and four Single Member Constituencies (SMCs) remain unchanged from the last election.

The report introduced five new GRCs and six new SMCs, resulting in the redistribution of several constituencies.

These changes are expected to have a major impact on two key opposition-contested areas — West Coast GRC and Bukit Batok SMC — where non-ruling parties made significant gains in the 2020 GE, The Straits Times (ST) reported.

Opposition slams electoral boundary changes as ‘gerrymandering’

In response to the changes, People’s Power Party (PPP) Secretary-General Goh Meng Seng criticised the report in a Facebook post,...