Toa Payoh Group Representation Constituency (GRC) was a group representation constituency that from 1988 to 1997 comprised Kuo Chuan, Boon Teck and

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, in the Central Region of Singapore. The MPs of Toa Payoh GRC was

Ong Teng Cheong Ong Teng Cheong ( zh, c=王鼎昌, p=Wáng Dǐngchāng; 22 January 1936 – 8 February 2002) was a Singaporean politician who served as the fifth president of Singapore between 1993 and 1999. He was also the first elected president in Singapor ...

, Davinder Singh, Ho Tat Kin and

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Kim Keat Single Member Constituency Kim Keat Single Member Constituency was a constituency in Singapore. It used to exist from 1968 to 1988 as Kim Keat Constituency and was renamed as Kim Keat Single Member Constituency (SMC) as part of Singapore's political reforms. The SMC was m ...

was absorbed in the 1991 elections. In 1997, the ward was merged along with

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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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Members of Parliament

resigned his post in July 1993 in order 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.

Members of Parliament

Candidates and results

Elections in the 1980s

Elections in the 1990s

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