Nicole Seah

Nicole Seah is a Peranakan, she used to stay in five-room HDB flat with her parents and two brothers, when she was introduced as the youngest candidate in 2011 election. Seah was married to Bryan, a Singaporean engineer based in Australia, in a ceremony at the Registry of Marriages in 21 August 2015.

She had a small role on a 2015 SG50 film 1965 as Mei, the wife of a police inspector played by MediaCorp artiste Qi Yuwu. The supporting role was offered by director Randy Ang of the said film.

On 2 August 2015, Nicole Seah stated that she would not be rejoining the National Solidarity Party and would not stand for the election, adding that she had been in touch with the Party's assistant secretary-general Reno Fong and organising secretary Spencer Ng on Facebook. She was still in Bangkok during that time.

On 21 August 2015, Seah returned to Singapore from Bangkok, where she was married to Bryan at a ceremony in the Registry of Marriages, which was attended by about a dozen of her immediate family.

A few days later on 24 August 2015, Nicole Seah's Facebook post linking an article on Ms He Ting Ru, who had contested as a Workers' Party candidate, has sparked speculation over her political allegiance. In one reply, she said: "I will definitely come back to help! Just not as a candidate." She had since began volunteering with the Party's media team after the 2015 general election.

On 30 August 2014, Nicole Seah resigned from the National Solidarity Party in an email statement sent to the media, Ms Seah, who was based in Bangkok back then, said the decision was extremely difficult and painful. She said: “There was nothing which might have happened to trigger this departure. I started in politics as a fresh graduate wanting to make a difference, by bringing more political awareness and interest to young people ... It’s reached a point where I feel that my job is done (for now) and I have to move on and grow in other areas.”

Seah has been involved in community activities and volunteering since secondary school. Her interest in politics was sparked by a meeting with a destitute woman, who – despite having a roof over her head – had no money for food, and was completely dependent on handouts from charity. While in NUS, she was the managing editor of an online publication called the Campus Observer.

In 23 November 2013, Nicole Seah wrote a lengthy status on her personal Facebook page recounting her experience in the time since the 2011 general election, where she says she was "derailed" from her larger purpose, taking on opportunities with being elected in 2016 in mind, that she had suffered a meltdown over a series of events that unfolded this year in her life.

On 27 November 2013, news site AsiaOne and newspaper Lianhe Wanbao issued an apology to Seah after they had inaccurately suggested that Seah was dating a married man. The man she had uploaded a photograph of her with CEO of social site mig33 Steven Goh, is actually divorced. Seah noted via Facebook that she had threatened to sue. As her boyfriend distanced himself from her as he was concerned about his reputation back then, Seah and Goh have since split up. "Instead of supporting me through the ordeal, he left me to deal with the aftermath alone... Though I would have struggled silently in the past, this time I refused. I ended the eight-month relationship and I'm now single and happier than before." She revealed in an interview with Her World.

Seah has been working in Bangkok, Thailand following the conclusion of the 2011 General Elections. The move, reported Mumbrella Asia, was from her employer IPG Mediabrands’s Singapore branch to its Thai office, where she is taking a role as a digital manager in Bangkok. In Singapore, she has held the position of senior account manager at the agency since November last year. Her mother, Patricia Lim, holds the position of Managing Director at the company's Singapore office.

Before the 2011 general election, Seah was involved with the Reform Party since 2009, but left in early February 2011 along with many other party members. She was invited to join the NSP by Goh Meng Seng, then the NSP's secretary-general.

Seah was announced as a member of the five-person NSP team contesting in the Marine Parade GRC in the 2011 Singaporean general election on 21 April 2011. This was the first time an opposition party had contested this GRC since 1992. This was several weeks after the PAP announced that their five-person team contesting Marine Parade GRC would include 27-year-old Tin Pei Ling, leading to immediate media attention to the contest of two young women, both contesting parliament seats for the first time. Tin had been facing online criticism since her candidature was announced, and – partially in response to Tin's positioning – Seah's popularity has grown tremendously, according to Jon Russell of Asia Sentinel, who added that "her popularity [is] testament to many choosing her as their preferred 'youth' candidate in the election". Her popularity has been referred to as "rockstar"-like by The Straits Times.

Despite national popularity, Seah's team captured only 43.35% of the vote and did not manage to wrest Marine Parade GRC from the PAP in the 2011 election. Nevertheless, this was seen as a huge achievement as the incumbent PAP had won 72.9% of the vote in the last election, which was the 1992 by-election. Also, the PAP team was helmed by a popular former Prime Minister, Goh Chok Tong. Indeed, the PAP's winning percentage was lower than the national PAP average. Goh later gave his thoughts on the election result in an interview with the Straits Times in which he stated that he had expected better results and cited Seah as a factor for the NSP's good showing.

After the election, Seah made an online appeal for donations for her campaign on her Facebook account, sparking off a debate on whether it is appropriate. On 23 May 2011, the NSP issued a public clarification statement and supported her actions.

In 30 July 2011, Nicole Seah endorsed presidential candidate Tan Jee Say for President, saying that "We need a President who is intellectual, who is a brilliant thinker, and not only that, someone who has a heart for the people and who can represent Singapore on the greater world stage."

She had appeared as a guest speaker at Tan Jee Say's presidential rally on 23 August 2011 and also as a counting agent during the campaign.

On 28 Aug 2011, the Presidential election ended with Tan Jee Say coming in third in the four-corner race, garnering 25.04 per cent or 529,732 votes out of a 2.1 million cast. Dr Tony Tan emerged as the winner with a slight margin of 7,269 votes. His closest contender was Dr Tan Cheng Bock.

Nicole Rebecca Seah Xue Ling (Chinese: 佘雪玲 ; pinyin: Shé Xuě Líng , born 17 October 1986) is a former Singaporean politician and a former National Solidarity Party (NSP) candidate for the Marine Parade Group Representation Constituency (Marine Parade GRC) in the 2011 Singaporean general election. At 24, she was the youngest female candidate standing in the election and immediately became a target of media attention, which became increasingly pronounced as her speeches began to go viral on YouTube. During the election, she was described as the second most popular politician online, after Lee Kuan Yew. On 25 August 2014, Seah resigned from the National Solidarity Party "to move on and grow in other areas".