Jalan Besar Constituency

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Jalan Besar
Single Member constituency
for the Parliament of Singapore
Region Singapore
Current constituency
Created1959
MemberConstituency Abolished
Town CouncilJalan Besar
Replaced by Jalan Besar GRC

Jalan Besar Constituency was a single member constituency within Kallang, Singapore. It existed from 1959 to 1988.

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Member of Parliament

Election Member of ParliamentParty
Legislative Assembly of Singapore
1959 Chan Chee Seng PAP
1961
1963
Parliament of Singapore
1968 Chan Chee Seng PAP
1972
1976
1980
1984 Lee Boon Yang

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: Jalan Besar
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
PAP Chan Chee Seng7,60062.48
SPA Wong Yew Hon2,57321.15
LSP Lo Ka Fat1,48812.23
LF See Eng Kiat5034.14
Turnout 12,29788.6
PAP win (new seat)

Elections in 1960s

General Election 1963: Jalan Besar [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
PAP Chan Chee Seng6,68651.87−10.61
BS Ng Ngeong Yew5,17240.12+40.12
UPP Yong Wan Kit1,0338.01+8.01
Turnout 13,09295.1+6.5
PAP hold Swing -10.61
General Election 1968: Jalan Besar [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
PAP Chan Chee Seng Walkover
Turnout 11,400
PAP hold Swing

Elections in 1970s

General Election 1972: Jalan Besar [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
PAP Chan Chee Seng7,79483.86
United National FrontJohnnie Ng1,50016.14
Turnout 9,51492.3
PAP hold Swing
General Election 1976: Jalan Besar [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
PAP Chan Chee Seng Walkover
Turnout 14,933
PAP hold Swing

Elections in 1980s

General Election 1980: Jalan Besar [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
PAP Chan Chee Seng Walkover
Turnout 15,058
PAP hold Swing
General Election 1984: Jalan Besar [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
PAP Lee Boon Yang 9,23664.43
WP Ananthan Balakrishnan5,10035.57
Turnout 14,80891.9
PAP hold Swing

See also

References

  1. ↑ "1963 LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS" . Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  2. ↑ "1968 PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS" . Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  3. ↑ "1972 PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS" . Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  4. ↑ "1976 PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS" . Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  5. ↑ "1980 PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS" . Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  6. ↑ "1984 PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS" . Retrieved 3 November 2020.

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