Serangoon Gardens Constituency

Serangoon Gardens Single Member Constituency was a single member constituency in Singapore. It was formed in 1959 by carving out from Serangoon Constituency as Serangoon Gardens Constituency.

In 1976, parts of the constituency was carved out to form Ang Mo Kio Constituency. In 1980, more part of the constituency was carved out to form Cheng San and Chong Boon constituencies.

In 1988, the constituency was renamed as Serangoon Gardens Single Member Constituency (SMC) as part of Singapore's political reforms.

In 1991, the constituency was abolished and merged into Thomson Group Representation Constituency.

Member of Parliament

Year	Incumbent	Party
Legislative Assembly of Singapore
1959	Leong Keng Seng		PAP
1963	R. A. Gonzales
Parliament of Singapore
1968	Leonard Peter Rodrigo		PAP
1972
1976	Lau Teik Soon
1980
1984
1988

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: Serangoon Gardens ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PAP	Leong Keng Seng	3,843	48.93
	SPA	Eric Wee Sian Beng	2,764	35.19
	PKMS	Liao Ping	853	10.86
	LF	Victor Louis Fernandez	330	4.20
	LSP	Lilian Tan	64	0.82
Majority			1,079	13.74
Registered electors			8,631
	PAP win (new seat)

Elections in 1970s

General Election 1976: Serangoon Gardens ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PAP	Lau Teik Soon	7,471	68.74
	WP	C. H. Crabb	3,397	31.26
Majority			4,074	37.48
Registered electors			12,115
Total valid votes			10,868
Rejected ballots
Turnout
	PAP win (new seat)

References

1. "ELD | 1959 Legislative Assembly General Election Results". www.eld.gov.sg.
2. "ELD | 1976 Parliamentary General Election Results". www.eld.gov.sg.