The Sembawang Group Representation Constituency is a five-member

Group Representation Constituency A group representation constituency (GRC) is a type of electoral division or constituency in Singapore in which teams of candidates, instead of individual candidates, compete to be elected into Parliament as the Members of Parliament (MPs) for th ...

(GRC) located in the

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area of

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. The GRC has five divisions: Sembawang Central, Naval Base, Woodlands, Admiralty and Canberra, managed by Sembawang Town Council. It also encompasses a section of Singapore's northern territorial waters in the

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. The current Members of Parliament (MPs) are Gabriel Lam,

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Ng Shi Xuan Ng Shi Xuan ( Chinese: 黄士轩; pinyin: ''Huáng Shìxuān'') is a Singaporean politician who was elected to the Parliament of Singapore in the 2025 general election. He represents the Sembawang GRC as a member of the People's Action Party. ...

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and

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from the

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(PAP).

History

For the 2025 general election, the majority of the residential area of Sembawang West ward was carved out of the GRC to form a new

Sembawang West Single Member Constituency Sembawang West Single Member Constituency (SMC) is a Single Member Constituency (SMC) for the Parliament of Singapore. Located in the North Region, Singapore, it was established in 2025 after being split from Sembawang Group Representation Consti ...

(SMC) in order to reduce the number of voters in the GRC. In the same year, the National Solidarity Party (NSP) and the

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(SDP) entered talks hoping to avert a three-cornered fight in the GRC. However, on 12 April, both parties were unable to come to an agreement as NSP rejected SDP's proposal for NSP to instead contest in Holland–Bukit Timah. Due to the creation of Sembawang West SMC, Poh Li San, left the GRC team to stand for reelection alone. A reconfigured PAP team defeated SDP with 67.75% of the vote to the SDP's 29.93%, while the NSP lost their deposit with 2.32% of the vote.

Members of Parliament

Electoral results

Elections in 1980s

Elections in 1990s

Elections in 2000s

Elections in 2010s

Elections in 2020s

References

2011 General Election's result
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