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The Chua Chu Kang Group Representation Constituency is a four-member Group Representation Constituency located in the
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area of
Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...
. There are four divisions of the GRC: Choa Chu Kang, Bukit Gombak, Keat Hong and Brickland. Military installations constitute a large part of the constituency, including most of the SAFTI Live Firing Area, Ama Keng and Neo Tiew military training areas and Murai Urban training facility. The current MPs are
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, Low Yen Ling,
Don Wee Don Wee Boon Hong ( zh, s=黄文鸿, p=Huáng Wénhóng; born 1976) is a Singaporean politician and accountant. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Brickland division ...
and Zhulkarnain Abdul Rahim from the
People's Action Party The People's Action Party (abbreviation: PAP) is a major conservative centre-right political party in Singapore and is one of the three contemporary political parties represented in Parliament, alongside the opposition Workers' Party (WP) and ...
(PAP).


History

Between 1988 and 2011, at the time Chua Chu Kang GRC was formerly called Hong Kah GRC, Chua Chu Kang SMC was one of the oldest surviving constituencies in Singapore and the only one to have both remained intact and existed before Singapore's independence, existed since 1959 when Singapore gained full self-governance from its colonial British Government. In 2001,
Bukit Gombak SMC Bukit Gombak Single Member Constituency (SMC) was a Single Member Constituency, single member constituency in the West Region, Singapore, western area in Singapore. The seat consisted of Bukit Gombak New Town with is made up of Bukit Gombak MRT ...
was absorbed into the former Hong Kah GRC with the town council being Hong Kah Town Council. In 2015,
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was absorbed into the newly created Marsiling–Yew Tee GRC. The 2011 elections saw the reformation of both wards with every ward of Hong Kah GRC and Chua Chu Kang being merged into Chua Chu Kang GRC, with the exception of Hong Kah North ward that had been crafted out to become an SMC. In 2020, the rest of Tengah were moved from Chua Chu Kang GRC to Hong Kah North SMC and all of the Nanyang were shifted to
West Coast GRC The West Coast Group Representation Constituency is a five-member Group Representation Constituency (GRC) located in the western area of Singapore. The five divisions consists: Ayer Rajah-Gek Poh, West Coast, Boon Lay, Nanyang and Telok Blangah ...
. The Western Water Catchment, Ama Keng, Wrexham, Poyan, Sarimbun, Lim Chu Kang and Murai were shifted from Nanyang to the newly formed Brickland division.


Town Council

Chua Chu Kang Town Council are operating with the
Hong Kah North SMC The Hong Kah North Single Member Constituency is a single member constituency (SMC) in the western part of Singapore. The Member of Parliament for the constituency is Amy Khor of the People's Action Party The People's Action Party (abbrevia ...
and the Chua Chu Kang GRC.


Members of Parliament


Electoral results


Elections in 2010s


Elections in 2020s


See also

* Chua Chu Kang SMC


References


External links


2020 General Election's result
{{Constituencies of Singapore Singaporean electoral divisions Bukit Batok Choa Chu Kang Jurong West Lim Chu Kang Sungei Kadut Tengah Western Water Catchment