{"id":16399,"date":"2025-03-27T08:30:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T08:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tuas.link\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/eld-raises-election-expenses-cap-to-s5-per-elector-updates-minority-candidate-requirements-in-grcs\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T08:30:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T08:30:57","slug":"eld-raises-election-expenses-cap-to-s5-per-elector-updates-minority-candidate-requirements-in-grcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tuas.link\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/eld-raises-election-expenses-cap-to-s5-per-elector-updates-minority-candidate-requirements-in-grcs\/","title":{"rendered":"ELD raises election expenses cap to S$5 per elector; updates minority candidate requirements in GRCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>ELD Increases Election Expenses Cap and Updates Minority Candidate Requirements<\/h2>\n<p>On 27 March, the Elections Department (ELD) announced that the maximum election expenses per elector will increase from S$4 to S$5. The reason cited for this adjustment was inflation.<\/p>\n<h2>Changes in GRC Minority Candidate Requirements<\/h2>\n<p>ELD also confirmed new requirements for minority candidates in Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs). The newly created Pasir Ris-Changi GRC must have at least one minority candidate. In addition, Punggol and Jurong East-Bukit Batok GRCs are mandated to include an Indian or other minority candidate in their line-up.<\/p>\n<p>The adjustments in election expense limits and minority candidate requirements were detailed in an announcement by the Elections Department. <\/p>\n<h2>Further Information<\/h2>\n<p>For more details, the original article can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theonlinecitizen.com\/2025\/03\/27\/eld-raises-election-expenses-cap-to-s5-per-elector-updates-minority-candidate-requirements-in-grcs\/\">here<\/a>. This article first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theonlinecitizen.com\">The Online Citizen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Source<\/h2>\n<p>This article is written in response to <a href='https:\/\/www.theonlinecitizen.com\/2025\/03\/27\/eld-raises-election-expenses-cap-to-s5-per-elector-updates-minority-candidate-requirements-in-grcs\/'>original article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELD Increases Election Expenses Cap and Updates Minority Candidate Requirements On 27 March, the Elections Department (ELD) announced that the maximum election expenses per elector will increase from S$4 to S$5. The reason cited for this adjustment was inflation. Changes in GRC Minority Candidate Requirements ELD also confirmed new requirements for minority candidates in Group&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":16400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sg"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuas.link\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuas.link\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuas.link\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuas.link\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuas.link\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tuas.link\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuas.link\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuas.link\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuas.link\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuas.link\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}