By Ramesh Subbaraman
Singapore's Parliament has been dissolved by President Tony Tan Keng Yam with a gazette notification on 25 August 2015.
The Elections Department has declared that 1 September 2015 shall be Nomination Day where candidates contesting the General Election shall file their nomination papers at the various nomination centres designated for the constituency.
Polling Day will be on 11 September 2015 (Friday) and it is a public holiday.
Nine days of campaigning have been declared by the elections department, and the day before polling day which is 10 September 2015 has been declared as Cooling Off Day.
Nomination Day
Nomination Day is the day when candidates from the various political parties contesting the polls file their nomination papers.
The papers are usually filed at school halls which will be designated as nomination centres in the various Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs) and Single Member Constituencies (SMCs).
For the coming elections, there will be 16 GRCs and 13 SMCs, making it 89 Members of Parliament up from the current 87.
Some 2.46 million people will be casting their votes for the coming General Election, up from 2.35 million in 2011.
Labour Movement Candidates
To date, the following candidates from the Labour Movement will be contesting at the coming polls:
• NTUC Secretary General Chan Chun Sing - Tanjong Pagar GRC
• NTUC Deputy Secretary-General Heng Chee How - Jalan Besar GRC
• NTUC Assistant Secretary-General Patrick Tay - West Coast GRC
• NTUC Assistant Secretary-General Zainal Sapari - Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC
• NTUC Assistant Secretary-General Yeo Guat Kwang - Aljunied GRC
• NTUC Assistant Secretary-General Ang Hin Kee - Ang Mo Kio GRC
• NTUC Youth Development Unit Director Desmond Choo - Tampines GRC
