section_path: Electoral system/Electoral boundaries changes
section_name: Electoral boundaries changes
paragraph_text: Electoral boundaries changes
  
  The Electoral Boundaries Review Committee (EBRC), which reviews and updates the Singapore's electoral map before the elections, was convened on 22 January 2025. The EBRC released their report on 11 March, which called for the creation of 18 GRCs and 15 SMCs. The number of MPs in the next parliament was increased to 97 elected seats. These changes were to account for the uneven distribution of growth in the number of electors across the existing electoral divisions, with most notable changes in the eastern and western ends of Singapore.
  
  The report introduced six new SMCs: Jurong Central, Sembawang West, Bukit Gombak, Jalan Kayu, Queenstown, and Tampines Changkat. In turn, five current SMCs – Bukit Batok, Hong Kah North, MacPherson, Punggol West, and Yuhua – were absorbed into neighbouring GRCs. The boundaries of only four existing SMCs, namely Bukit Panjang, Hougang, Marymount, and Pioneer, remained unchanged.
  
  Many GRCs in the east and west of Singapore were reorganised. Jurong GRC was split into the newly-established Jurong East–Bukit Batok and West Coast–Jurong West GRCs. West Coast GRC was renamed to West Coast–Jurong West GRC. In the east, Pasir Ris–Punggol GRC was split into Pasir Ris–Changi and Punggol GRCs. Marine Parade GRC was also renamed into Marine Parade–Braddell Heights GRC as it absorbed MacPherson, and parts of Potong Pasir and Mountbatten. Bishan–Toa Payoh, Jalan Besar, Marsiling–Yew Tee, Nee Soon, and Sengkang GRCs remained unchanged.
  
  The boundary changes were accepted by the Singapore government. While the Progress Singapore Party (PSP) was "heartened that the EBRC has somewhat disclosed more of the reasoning behind its decisions, contrary to its previous report in 2020", the party felt that "the EBRC could have accounted for population shifts without making drastic changes to existing major electoral boundaries". The Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) expressed "disappointment with the disappearance of Yuhua and Bukit Batok SMCs" – the electoral districts where the SDP had planned to contest – and claimed the process of redrawing boundaries "lacked transparency". Similarly, on 25 March, Workers' Party 's (WP) Pritam Singh cited the change as "one of the most radical redrawing(s)" in one of his Facebook posts, and said that an opaque institution could become divisive and that changes to the political system could be greatly improved.