section_path: Background
section_name: Background
paragraph_text: Background
  
  The People's Action Party (PAP) won a majority of seats in the 2020 general election in what was its toughest contest since independence, although it still won all but three electoral divisions (two GRCs and one SMC). It retained West Coast GRC in a fight against the Progress Singapore Party, with the narrowest margin of victory among all electoral divisions; its largest margin of victory was in neighbouring Jurong GRC. The Workers' Party won the new Sengkang GRC and retained Aljunied GRC and Hougang SMC. Ng Chee Meng, Minister in the Prime Minister's Office and Secretary-General of the NTUC who had led the Sengkang PAP team, was considered the highest profile political casualty of the election. The 14th Parliament was the second longest in Singapore's history at four years and eight months, only behind the 8th Parliament; it also had the most sittings in one term at 162, surpassing the previous term 's 135.