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River Valley Constituency was a constituency in Singapore. It used to exist from 1959 to 1988. The 1959 election in River Valley remains the record for the closest winning margin in any election in Singapore history.
In 1988, the constituency was dissolved following the establishment of Group representation constituency (GRC) and Single Member Constituency (SMC). [1]
| Election | Member | Party | |
| Formation | |||
| Legislative Assembly of Singapore | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Lim Cheng Lock | PAP | |
| 1963 | |||
| Parliament of Singapore | |||
| 1968 | Low Guan Onn | PAP | |
| 1972 | Tan Eng Liang | ||
| 1976 | |||
| 1980 | Tay Eng Soon | ||
| 1984 | |||
| Constituency abolished (1988) | |||
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 | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PAP | Lim Cheng Lock | 3,430 | 36.6 | |
| SPA | Soh Ghee Soon | 3,425 | 36.5 | |
| LSP | Tan Ek Khoo | 2,529 | 27.0 | |
| Majority | 5 | 0.1 | ||
| Turnout | 9,534 | 90.0 | ||
| PAP win (new seat) | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PAP | Lim Cheng Lock | 5,597 | 56.7 | +20.1 | |
| BS | Goh Lam San | 2,668 | 27.0 | ||
| SA | Yap Pheng Geck | 1,156 | 11.7 | −24.8 | |
| UPP | Wong Chung Kit | 455 | 4.6 | ||
| Majority | 2,929 | 29.7 | |||
| Turnout | 9,980 | 94.8 | |||
| PAP hold | Swing | ||||
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