The Tanjong Pagar Group Representation Constituency is a five-member
Group Representation Constituency (GRC) in
Central and
Western
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Places
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*Western Creek, Tasmania, a locality in Australia
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Singapore. The five divisions consists:
Buona Vista
Buona Vista is a housing estate located in the subzones of one-north and Holland Drive in the residential township of Queenstown in Singapore. The housing estate is served by the Buona Vista MRT station which links it up with the MRT system. I ...
,
Queenstown, Moulmein-Cairnhill,
Tanjong Pagar
Tanjong Pagar ( alternatively spelled ''Tanjung Pagar'') is a historic district located within the Central Business District in Singapore, straddling the Outram Planning Area and the Downtown Core under the Urban Redevelopment Authority's urb ...
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Tiong Bahru and Henderson-Dawson. The current Members of Parliament are
Indranee Rajah,
Chan Chun Sing,
Joan Pereira,
Eric Chua and
Alvin Tan 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) a ...
(PAP).
History
This GRC came into formation in 1991, when it absorbed the
Tiong Bahru GRC
Tiong Bahru GRC was a defunct three-member group representation constituency that from 1988 to 1991, comprised Henderson, Radin Mas, and Tiong Bahru, in Singapore. Once it is dissolved, it was quickly replaced by Tanjong Pagar GRC
The Tanjong P ...
,
Telok Blangah SMC and
Tanjong Pagar SMC. Since the formation of the GRC, the ward was notable for its repeated
walkover
John Baxter Taylor and William Robbins (athlete)">William Robbins to refuse to race in protest.
A walkover, also W.O. or w/o (originally two words: "walk over") is awarded to the opposing team/player etc, if there are no other players avai ...
s. The last walkover was in
2011 when Tanjong Pagar GRC became the only constituency to be uncontested following the disqualification of a team of independent candidates (which led by Ng Teck Siong) as they submitted their nomination papers 35 seconds late.
Town Council
Tanjong Pajar GRC is managed by the Tanjong Pajar Town Council.
Members of Parliament
Lee
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Name
Given name
* Lee (given name), a given name in English
Surname
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** Li (surname 李) or Lee (Hanzi ), a common Chinese surname
** Li (surname 利) or Lee (Hanzi ), a Chinese ...
died on 23 March 2015 due to
pneumonia
Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli. Symptoms typically include some combination of productive or dry cough, chest pain, fever, and difficulty breathing. The severi ...
. No by-elections were called as it was a GRC and Rajah served as a temporary MP for the ward until the
general elections in September that year.
Electoral results
Elections in 1990s
Elections in 2000s
Elections in 2010s
Elections in 2020s
References
External links
2020 General Election's result
{{Constituencies of Singapore
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