City Constituency

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City
Former constituency
for the Legislative Council of Singapore
Region Singapore
Electorate5,611
Former constituency
Created1951
Abolished1955
Seats1
Replaced by

City Constituency was a constituency represented in the Legislative Council of Singapore from 1951 until 1955. [1] The constituency was formed in 1951 from carving out from Municipal South-West Constituency and in 1955, it was split into Havelock, Stamford, Tanjong Pagar and Telok Ayer constituencies.

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Legislative Council member

ElectionMemberParty
1951 Nazir Ahmad Mallal PP

Electoral results

Note: The Elections Department does not include rejected votes when calculating the vote shares of candidates. Hence, all candidates' vote shares will total to 100% at any given election (may not appear so in multi-way contests due to rounding).

Elections in 1950s

General Election 1951: City
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
PP Nazir Ahmad Mallal 1,308 53.8
Independent Balwant Singh Bajaj1,02542.2
Independent Mirza Abdul Majid964.0
Majority 28311.6
Turnout 2,46543.9
Registered electors 5,611
PP win

References

  1. "Singapore Legislative Council General Election 1951". Singapore Elections. Archived from the original on 2020-07-27. Retrieved 2020-08-08.