Toa Payoh GRC
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Toa Payoh Group Representation Constituency (GRC) was a defunct group representation constituency that from 1988 to 1997 comprised Kuo Chuan, Boon Teck and
Toa Payoh Toa Payoh ( or , , ) is a Planning areas of Singapore, planning area and New towns of Singapore, mature residential town located in the northern part of the Central Region, Singapore, Central Region of Singapore. Toa Payoh planning area borde ...
, in the Central Region of Singapore. The MPs are Davinder Singh, Ho Tat Kin and S. Dhanabalan.
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was absorbed in the 1991 elections. In 1997, the ward was merged along with
Thomson GRC Thomson Group Representation Constituency (GRC) was a defunct four-member constituency that compromises of Bishan East, Serangoon Gardens, Bishan North and Thomson from 1991 to 1997. It merged parts of Thomson and Serangoon Gardens itself. Thom ...
to form Bishan–Toa Payoh GRC. Ong would resign in 1993 to contest in the
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and later become the 5th
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. Subsequently, S Dhanabalan had retired from cabinet position in 1994. It was one of the constituencies without any anchor minister.


Members of Parliament

Ong Teng Cheong Ong Teng Cheong (22 January 1936 – 8 February 2002) was a Singaporean statesman, architect and union leader who served as the fifth president of Singapore between 1993 and 1999. Born when Singapore was a part of the Singapore in the Straits ...
resigned as Member of Parliament in August 1993 to contest in the 1993 Presidential Elections. However, no by-election was called on the ground since it was a Group Representation Constituency, and the workload for the ward was distributed among the rest of the team.


Electoral results


Elections in the 1980s


Elections in the 1990s


References

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