GE2025: PAP’s Desmond Choo faces off against WP’s Kenneth Foo in Tampines Changkat SMC

Mr Choo, 46, is a former MP of Tampines GRC who oversaw the Tampines Changkat division after he was elected in 2015. 

He was re-elected in 2020 as part of PAP’s Tampines team, alongside Minister for Social and Family Development Masagos Zulkifli, Mr Baey Yam Keng, Ms Cheng Li Hui, and Senior Minister of State Koh Poh Koon. 

The PAP team garnered 66.41 per cent of the vote share, against the National Solidarity Party’s 33.59 per cent that General Election. 

Mr Choo, who is also the assistant secretary-general of the National Trades Union Congress, has faced off Workers’ Party candidates in single-seat wards in previous elections.

In 2011, Mr Choo, then making his electoral debut, ran against Workers’ Party’s Yaw Shin Leong in Hougang SMC but lost. 

Mr Choo contested the same single-seat ward in a 2012 by-election following Mr Yaw’s expulsion from WP and was defeated by WP’s Png Eng Huat. 

Meanwhile, WP’s Mr Foo, who is deputy director of a charitable organisation, contested in East Coast GRC in 2020. He has been with WP since 2006 and is the party’s deputy organising secretary.  

For GE2025, Singaporeans will head to the polls on May 3.