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Ayer Rajah Constituency
Ayer Rajah Single Member Constituency (SMC) was a single member constituency in Singapore that existed from 1980 to 2006. History Ayer Rajah Constituency was first formed during the 1980 general election. In 1988, after electoral reforms, it was known as Ayer Rajah Single Member Constituency. Ayer Rajah SMC was made up of Pandan Gardens estate, Teban Gardens estate, parts of Jurong East New Town and Clementi West New Town. In 2006, it was absorbed into the West Coast Group Representation Constituency The West Coast Group Representation Constituency was a five-member Group Representation Constituency (GRC) located in the West Region, Singapore, western and Central Region, Singapore, central areas of Singapore. The five divisions consisted of: .... Member of Parliament Electoral results Elections in 1980s Elections in 1990s Elections in 2000s References Singaporean electoral divisions Constituencies establi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliament Of Singapore
The Parliament of Singapore is the unicameralism, unicameral legislature of the Singapore, Republic of Singapore, which governs the country alongside the President of Singapore. Largely based upon the Westminster system, the Parliament is made up of List of Singapore MPs, Members of Parliament (MPs) who are elected, as well as Non-constituency Member of Parliament, Non-Constituency Members of Parliament (NCMPs) and Nominated Member of Parliament, Nominated Members of Parliament (NMPs) who are appointed. Following the 2025 Singaporean general election, 2025 general election, 97 MPs and two NCMPs from two political parties were General elections in Singapore, elected to the 15th Parliament of Singapore, 15th Parliament. Throughout the sitting of Parliament, nine NMPs are usually appointed by the President of Singapore, president on a biennial basis. The Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore, Speaker of Parliament has overall charge of the administration of Parliament and its secr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 Singaporean General Election
General elections were held in Singapore on 3 September 1988. President Wee Kim Wee dissolved parliament on 17 August 1988 on the advice of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. The result was a victory for the People's Action Party, which won 80 of the 81 seats. This is Lee Kuan Yew's last election as Prime Minister before handing to Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. Though the total eligible voter population surpassed one million in 1976, the 1988 elections was the first time that over one million voters were able to vote in contested constituencies. This was not repeated until 2006. As of 2025, the 1988 election was the recent election to date where Workers' Party did not win any seats in Parliament (not counting the Non-constituency Member of Parliament). Background In 1986, Town Councils were introduced, which also cumulates to the creation of Group Representation Constituencies, a plurality general ticket voting scheme, to ensure ethnic minority representation in Parliament, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constituencies Disestablished In 2006
An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provide the voters therein with representation in a legislature or other polity. That legislative body, the state's constitution, or a body established for that purpose determines each district's boundaries and whether each will be represented by a Single-member district, single member or multiple members. Generally, only voters (''constituents'') who Residency (domicile), reside within the district are permitted to vote in an election held there. The district representative or representatives may be elected by single-winner first past the post, first-past-the-post system, a multi-winner Proportional representation, proportional representative system, or another voting system, voting method. The district members may be selected by a direct elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singaporean Electoral Divisions
Singaporeans are the citizens and nationals of the sovereign island city-state of Singapore. Singapore is home to a people of a variety of ethno-racial-religious origins, with the city-state itself being a multi-racial, multi-cultural, multi-religious, multi-denominational, multi-lingual, and multi-ethnic country. Singaporeans of Chinese, Malay, Indian and Eurasian descent have made up the overwhelming majority of the population since the 19th century. The Singaporean diaspora is also far-reaching worldwide. In 1819, the port of Singapore was established by Sir Stamford Raffles, who opened it to free trade and free immigration on the island's south coast. Many immigrants from the region settled in Singapore. By 1827, the population of the island was composed of people from various ethnic groups². Singapore is a multilingual and multicultural society. It is home to people of many different ethnic, racial, religious, denominational, and national origins -- the major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tan Lead Shake
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is a political party in Singapore. It was founded by former Workers' Party (WP) Assistant Secretary-General Seow Khee Leng in 1973. History and political development On 16 March 1973, Seow Khee Leng and other members of the WP broke away from the party and founded a new political party United Front (UF). On 5 March 1982, the party was renamed to Singapore United Front (SUF), to avoid confusion with the name of another party, United People's Front. During the campaigning in the 1984 general election, SUF chief Seow was sued by Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew and other members of People's Action Party for making defamatory remarks at two rally speeches that Lee and his cabinet were guilty of corruption. Seow was ordered to pay Lee and the PAP S$250,000 worth of damages and costs each. On 3 February 1989, Seow was declared bankrupt after being unable to keep up with the payments for the damages owned from two separate but similar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 Singaporean General Election
General elections were held in Singapore on 3 November 2001. President S.R. Nathan dissolved parliament on 18 October 2001 on the advice of Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. The ruling People's Action Party (PAP) won 82 of the 84 elected seats in Parliament in a landslide victory. This was the third consecutive election (and fourth overall) where the PAP returned to power on nomination day due to a majority of seats, 55 of them from ten Group Representation Constituencies, just one seat short from a supermajority, were elected via walkovers, being the most recent election on doing so. This is Goh Chok Tong's last election as Prime Minister before handing to Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. This election marked the first time that total eligible voter population exceeded the 2 million mark, though only one third of them (675,306 of the 2,036,923 eligible voters) had an opportunity to vote. As of the recent election in 2025, this was the most recent general election to date wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sin Kek Tong
Sin Kek Tong ( zh, s=沈克栋, p=Shěn Kèdòng; died 27 February 2017) was a Singaporean politician. A former member of Singapore People's Party (SPP), Sin served as the Singapore People's Party chairman between 1996 and 2012 and Secretary-General of the Singapore People's Party between 1994 and 1996. Originally a member of the opposition Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), Sin left the SDP in 1994 with a breakaway faction of SDP members who supported Chiam See Tong in an internal conflict against Chee Soon Juan and other SDP leaders. Sin and Chiam's supporters then started the Singapore People's Party (SPP), with Sin standing in as secretary-general until Chiam officially joined the SPP in 1996. Throughout his political career, Sin had contested in six general elections from 1988 to 2011, but had never won any of them. Political career Singapore Democratic Party Sin made his political debut in the 1988 general election when he contested as a candidate of the opposition Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 Singaporean General Election
General elections were held in Singapore on 2 January 1997. President Ong Teng Cheong dissolved parliament on 16 December 1996 on the advice of Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. The results were released in the late evening that day and the ruling People's Action Party won a total of 81 out of 83 seats as well as a tenth consecutive term in office under the then-Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. Other major political parties contesting in the election were the Workers' Party, Singapore Democratic Party, National Solidarity Party, Singapore People's Party and the Democratic Progressive Party. The 1997 election is the only election that spanned two calendar years with nomination day happening the preceding year on 23 December 1996 and polling day on 2 January 1997; during nomination day, the People's Action Party returned to power for the second consecutive (and third overall) election as 47 (more than half of the total 83) seats were won uncontested. On polling day, voters voted for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 Singaporean General Election
The 1991 Singaporean general election was held on 31 August 1991 to elect all 81 members of the Parliament of Singapore across 36 constituencies. Parliament was dissolved by President Wee Kim Wee on 14 August 1991, upon the advice of Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. This election was the first to be called under Goh's premiership after succeeding Lee Kuan Yew in 1990. Voting took place in only 25 constituencies, accounting for 40 seats, as the remaining 11 constituencies, comprising 41 seats, were uncontested, with People's Action Party (PAP) candidates returning unopposed. The election resulted in a decisive landslide victory for the PAP, which secured 77 out of 81 seats, and another supermajority. However, the opposition made historic gains. The Workers' Party (WP), led by J.B. Jeyaretnam, won Hougang Single Member Constituency (SMC), while the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), under the leadership of Chiam See Tong, retained Potong Pasir SMC and captured Nee Soon Central a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1984 Singaporean General Election
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West Coast Group Representation Constituency
The West Coast Group Representation Constituency was a five-member Group Representation Constituency (GRC) located in the West Region, Singapore, western and Central Region, Singapore, central areas of Singapore. The five divisions consisted of: Ayer Rajah-Gek Poh, West Coast, Singapore, West Coast, Boon Lay, Nanyang and Telok Blangah managed by West Coast Town Council. West Coast GRC covered the areas of Ayer Rajah, Dover, Singapore, Dover, Pasir Panjang, the south-western area, West Coast, Singapore, West Coast, Jurong, Jurong Island, Sentosa, Telok Blangah, Tuas and much of Singapore's southern & western territorial waters and offshore islands. History In January 2024, Iswaran resigned from the PAP, the Ministry of Transport (Singapore), ministership for transport and his seat as Parliament of Singapore, Member of Parliament (MP) in the GRC after he was charged in the State Courts of Singapore with 27 charges relating to bribery and corruption. Following the 2025 Elections B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
