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陈舜娘 | |
Jessica Tan in 2016
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Assumed office 2006 |
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President | Tony Tan Keng Yam |
Prime Minister | Lee Hsien Loong |
Member of the Singapore Parliament for East Coast GRC |
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Personal details | |
Born |
Singapore |
28 May 1966
Nationality | Singaporean |
Political party | People's Action Party |
Alma mater | National University of Singapore |
Jessica Tan Soon Neo (simplified Chinese: 陈舜娘; traditional Chinese: 陳舜娘; pinyin: Chén Shùn Niáng; born 28 May 1966) is a Singaporean Member of Parliament for East Coast GRC. She is a Roman Catholic.
Tan became an MP for the first time after the 2006 general election, when Tan's five man team, representing the People's Action Party, defeated the Workers' Party of Singapore with 63.86% of the votes for East Coast GRC. The votes in the 2011 general election narrowed to 54.8% for the PAP.
In the Singaporean general election, 2015, she was returned to Parliament after her team defeated the Worker's Party with 60.7% of the popular vote, an increase of 5.9%.
GRC team members