Crawford Constituency

Crawford Constituency was a constituency in Singapore. It used to exist from 1959 to 1976, broke off from Rochore Constituency.

Member of Parliament

• Kenneth Michael Byrne (1959 - 1963)
• S.T. Bani (1963 - 1966)
• Sellappa Ramaswamy (1966 - 1968)
• Low Yong Nguan (1968 - 1972)
• Ang Kok Peng (1972 - 1976)

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 1959: Crawford ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Kenneth Michael Byrne	7,120	66.6
	SPA	Teng Ling Siong	2,487	23.3
	LSP	Chua Seng Kian	897	8.4
	Independent	John Sim	191	1.8
Majority			4,633	43.4	N/A
Turnout			10,807	89.8
	PAP win (new seat)

Elections in 1960s

General Election 1963: Crawford ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BS	S.T. Bani	4,400	42.8
	PAP	Kenneth Michael Byrne	4,207	40.9	−25.7
	UPP	Lau Tok Keong	1,032	10.0
	SA	Hsieh Shao An	571	5.5	−17.8
	WP	Wong Hong Toy	81	0.8
Majority			193	0.8
Turnout			10,401	95.0
	BS gain from PAP		Swing

References

1. "1959 LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS" . Retrieved 9 November 2020.
2. "1963 LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS" . Retrieved 9 November 2020.