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Bukit Timah | |
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Former Single Member constituency for the Parliament of Singapore | |
Region | Central Region, Singapore |
Electorate | 24,512 (1991) |
Former constituency | |
Created | 1951 |
Abolished | 1997 |
Seats | 1 |
Created from | Rural West |
Replaced by | Bukit Timah GRC |
Bukit Timah | |
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Former Single Member constituency for the Parliament of Singapore | |
Region | Central Region, Singapore |
Electorate | 26,951 (2001) |
Former constituency | |
Created | 2001 |
Abolished | 2006 |
Seats | 1 |
Created from | Bukit Timah GRC |
Replaced by | Holland–Bukit Timah GRC |
Bukit Timah Single Member Constituency(SMC) was a single member constituency in Bukit Timah, Singapore. It was formerly known as Bukit Timah Constituency before 1988.
In 1951, Rural West Constituency was broken up into Bukit Timah constituency and Seletar constituency .
In 1955, the constituency was broken up to form various constituencies, Bukit Panjang, Pasir Panjang, Queenstown, Sembawang and Southern Islands SMC. In 1959, it was further broken up to form Jurong SMC.
In 1972, the constituency was broken up to form Bukit Batok SMC, followed by in 1980 distributed to Ayer Rajah SMC, Clementi SMC and West Coast SMC with the growing development of Clementi, and in 1984 to Yuhua SMC and Hong Kah SMC with the growing development of Jurong East.
In 1988, as part of Singapore's electoral reforms, the constituency was renamed as Bukit Timah Single Member Constituency.
In 1997, it was absorbed into Bukit Timah GRC along with Bukit Batok SMC, Jurong SMC, Ulu Pandan SMC and Yuhua SMC.
In 2001, the SMC was recreated as Bukit Timah GRC was broken up to form Holland–Bukit Panjang GRC, Jurong GRC and Bukit Timah SMC. In 2006, the SMC was absorbed into another GRC, Holland–Bukit Timah GRC.
Election | Member of Parliament | Party | |
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Legislative Council of Singapore | |||
1951 | Hollupatherage James Caldera Kulasingha | PP | |
Legislative Assembly of Singapore | |||
1955 | Lim Chin Siong | PAP | |
1959 | Ya'acob bin Mohamed | ||
1963 | Lee Tee Tong | BS | |
1966 | Chor Yeok Eng | PAP | |
Parliament of Singapore | |||
1968 | Chor Yeok Eng | PAP | |
1972 | |||
1976 | |||
1980 | |||
1984 | Wang Kai Yuen | ||
1988 | |||
1991 | |||
Constituency abolished (1997 – 2001) | |||
2001 | Wang Kai Yuen | PAP |
Note : Elections Department Singapore do not include rejected votes for calculation of candidate's vote share. Hence, the total of all candidates' vote share will be 100%.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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PP | Hollupatherage James Caldera Kulasingha | 1,311 | 57.15 | ||
Labour Party | Valiya Purayil Abdullah | 983 | 42.85 | ||
Rejected ballots | 32 | 1.38 | |||
Majority | 428 | 14.3 | |||
Registered electors | 3,850 | ||||
Turnout | 2,326 | 60.42 | |||
PP win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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PAP | Lim Chin Siong | 3,259 | 52.45 | N/A | |
DP | Tan Wah Meng | 1,308 | 21.05 | N/A | |
LF | A. N. Mitra | 924 | 14.88 | N/A | |
PP | S. F. Ho | 722 | 11.62 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 59 | 0.94 | 0.44 | ||
Majority | 1,951 | 31.4 | 14.3 | ||
Registered electors | 9,173 | 138.26 | |||
Turnout | 6,272 | 68.4 | 8.00 | ||
PAP gain from PP |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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PAP | Ya'acob bin Mohamed | 6,174 | 61.14 | N/A | |
LSP | Pek Cheng Chuan | 2,460 | 24.36 | N/A | |
Independent | Lee Yew Seng | 1,464 | 14.50 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 92 | 0.9 | 0.04 | ||
Majority | 3,714 | 36.78 | 5.38 | ||
Registered electors | 11,285 | 23.02 | |||
Turnout | 10,190 | 90.3 | 21.9 | ||
PAP hold | Swing | 8.69 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BS | Lee Tee Tong | 6,173 | 52.39 | N/A | |
PAP | Chor Yeok Eng | 4,982 | 42.28 | 18.86 | |
UPP | Ong Tiong Kuan | 628 | 5.33 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 152 | 1.27 | 0.37 | ||
Majority | 1,191 | 10.11 | 26.66 | ||
Registered electors | 12,502 | 10.78 | |||
Turnout | 11,935 | 95.46 | 5.16 | ||
BS gain from PAP | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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PAP | Chor Yeok Eng | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 14,854 | 18.81 | |||
PAP gain from BS |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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PAP | Chor Yeok Eng | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 16,769 | 12.89 | |||
PAP hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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PAP | Chor Yeok Eng | 9,475 | 66.78 | N/A | |
BS | K. K. Nair | 4,714 | 33.22 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 409 | 2.8 | N/A | ||
Majority | 4,761 | 33.56 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 15,476 | 7.71 | |||
Turnout | 14,598 | 94.3 | N/A | ||
PAP hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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PAP | Chor Yeok Eng | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 13,132 | 15.15 | |||
PAP hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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PAP | Chor Yeok Eng | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 15,334 | 16.77 | |||
PAP hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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PAP | Wang Kai Yuen | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 17,238 | 12.42 | |||
PAP hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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PAP | Wang Kai Yuen | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 20,222 | 17.31 | |||
PAP hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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PAP | Wang Kai Yuen | 16,080 | 72.64 | N/A | |
WP | Zeng Guo Yuan | 5,683 | 25.68 | N/A | |
Independent | Md Sani Jan | 371 | 1.68 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 561 | 2.47 | N/A | ||
Majority | 10,397 | 46.96 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 24,512 | 21.21 | |||
Turnout | 22,695 | 92.59 | N/A | ||
PAP hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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PAP | Wang Kai Yuen | 19,121 | 77.37 | ||
SDA | Tong Meng Chye | 4,376 | 17.71 | ||
Independent | Tan Kim Chuang | 1,215 | 4.92 | ||
Rejected ballots | 503 | 2.03 | |||
Majority | 14,745 | 59.66 | |||
Registered electors | 26,951 | ||||
Turnout | 24,712 | 91.69 | |||
PAP win (new seat) |
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