Aljunied Group Representation Constituency
| Aljunied | |
|---|---|
| Group Representation constituency for the Parliament of Singapore | |
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| Region | North-East and East Regions, Singapore |
| Electorate | 144,032 |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1988 |
| Seats | 5 |
| Party | Workers' Party |
| Member(s) | Gerald Giam Pritam Singh Faisal Manap Sylvia Lim |
| Town Council | Aljunied–Hougang |
| Created from | |
The Aljunied Group Representation Constituency is a five-member group representation constituency (GRC) in the north-eastern and eastern region of Singapore. It consists of a large part of Hougang (excluding Hougang SMC), Paya Lebar, Serangoon Gardens, the southern half of Serangoon North as well as a portion of Bedok. The GRC consists of five divisions: Eunos, Bedok Reservoir-Punggol, Kaki Bukit, Serangoon and Paya Lebar.
History
[edit]Aljunied GRC was formed in 1988 and was won by the People's Action Party (PAP) against the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) with 56.33% of the votes to 43.67%. It was uncontested in 1991, and was contested again in 1997 by the SDP but ultimately performed much poorer as compared to 1988, garnering only 32.98% of the votes against 67.02% from the PAP. It was uncontested once more in 2001. In 2006, the Workers' Party (WP) began contesting in the area, garnering 43.91% of the votes to the PAP's 56.09%.
2011 election
[edit]In 2011, a WP team, led by party leader Low Thia Khiang, left his seat at Hougang SMC to contest in this division. They made a historic breakthrough when the WP team won the election for the GRC with 54.72% of the votes to the PAP's 45.28%, making it the first GRC to be won by an opposition party since the introduction of the GRC system in 1988.[1]
2015 election
[edit]In 2015, a PAP team led by Yeo Guat Kwang contested the constituency. As part of a national swing towards the PAP due to SG50 and only a few months after the death of Lee Kuan Yew, the WP almost lost the division back to the PAP. During the vote counting, a recount was requested by the PAP team as the difference in votes between the two teams was less than two per cent of the total valid votes cast.[2] Following the recount, Aljunied GRC's electoral result was declared last at 3.10am the following morning with WP ultimately retaining the constituency by a narrow margin of just 1.9%, or a majority of 2,612.[3]
2020 election
[edit]In 2020, Low and Chen Show Mao declined to run for re-election.[4][5] Led by WP's new party leader Pritam Singh, the WP retained the GRC with 59.95% of the vote, a 9% swing from the previous election.[6]
MP resignation
[edit]In July 2023, a video surfaced that allegedly showed the MP for the Serangoon ward Leon Perera holding hands intimately with fellow WP member Nicole Seah. On 19 July, WP secretary-general Pritam Singh revealed that Perera and Seah began an affair some time after the 2020 general elections, which had ended before the video surfaced. Perera resigned as a Member of Parliament and as a Member of the WP on 19 July 2023 and Seah resigned from the party on 18 July 2023.[7] After Perera's resignation, The workload for Serangoon was distributed among the other MPs in Aljunied GRC.
2025 election
[edit]In August 2024, the PAP appointed Jagathishwaran Rajo and Kenny Sim to replace Chua Eng Leong and Alex Yeo respectively as the chairs of the Eunos and Paya Lebar PAP branches.[8] The PAP again replaced three of its five current Aljunied branch chairpersons in February 2025 and appointed Dr Faisal Abdul Aziz, Daniel Liu and Adrian Ang to replaced outgoing branch chairperson, Kenny Sim, Shamsul Kamar and Victor Lye.[9]
Constituency profile
[edit]On 11 March 2025, the Elections Department updated the electoral divisions for the 2025 Singaporean general election. Some polling districts to the east of Bedok Reservoir were absorbed by Tampines West ward of Tampines GRC. The number of MPs that the GRC elects remained at five. This was the first time that a non-PAP and opposition-held constituency had its boundaries redrawn, albeit slightly.[10]
Members of Parliament
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| 2025 | TBD | |||
^ Leon Perera resigned as Member of Parliament in 2023 due to an affair with party member Nicole Seah.
Electoral results
[edit]Note : Elections Department Singapore do not include rejected votes for calculation of candidate's vote share. Hence, the total of all candidates' vote share will be 100%.
Elections in 1980s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PAP | Chin Harn Tong George Yeo Wan Hussin Zoohri |
34,020 | 56.33 | |
| SDP | Jufrie Mahmood Ashleigh Seow Neo Choon Aik |
26,375 | 43.67 | |
| Majority | 7,645 | 12.67 | ||
| Total valid votes | 98.06 | 60,395 | ||
| Rejected ballots | 1,197 | 1.94 | ||
| Turnout | 61,592 | 94.24 | ||
| Registered electors | 65,351 | |||
| PAP win (new seat) | ||||
Elections in 1990s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| PAP | Chin Harn Tong George Yeo Mohamad Maidin bin Packer Ker Sin Tze |
Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 94,490 |  44.59
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| PAP hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| PAP | Toh See Kiat David Lim Sidek Saniff George Yeo Ker Sin Tze |
64,299 | 67.02 | N/A | |
| SDP | Aziz Ibrahim Kwan Yue Keng S. Kunalen Tay Hoon Wong Hong Toy |
31,645 | 32.98 | N/A | |
| Majority | 32,954 | 34.04 | N/A | ||
| Total valid votes | 95,944 | 97.00 | N/A | ||
| Rejected ballots | 2,971 | 3.00 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 98,915 | 95.60 | N/A | ||
| Registered electors | 103,466 | 9.50
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Elections in 2000s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| PAP | Ong Seh Hong Yeo Guat Kwang George Yeo Zainul Abidin bin Mohammed Rasheed Cynthia Phua |
Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 125,115 | 20.92
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| PAP hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| PAP | Yeo Guat Kwang George Yeo Zainul Abidin bin Mohammed Rasheed Cynthia Phua Lim Hwee Hua |
74,843 | 56.09 | N/A | |
| WP | Goh Meng Seng Sylvia Lim James Gomez Tan Wui-Hua Mohammed Rahizan Bin Yaacob |
58,593 | 43.91 | N/A | |
| Majority | 16,250 | 12.18 | N/A | ||
| Total valid votes | 133,436 | 98.25 | N/A | ||
| Rejected ballots | 2,381 | 1.75 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 135,817 | 93.58 | N/A | ||
| Registered electors | 145,141 | 16.00
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| PAP hold | |||||
Elections in 2010s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| WP | Low Thia Khiang Sylvia Lim Chen Show Mao Pritam Singh Muhamad Faisal bin Abdul Manap |
72,289 | 54.72 | 10.81
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| PAP | George Yeo Lim Hwee Hua Zainul Abidin bin Mohammed Rasheed Cynthia Phua Ong Ye Kung |
59,829 | 45.28 |  10.81
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| Majority | 12,460 | 9.44 | 2.74
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| Total valid votes | 132,118 | 98.66 | 0.41
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| Rejected ballots | 1,788 | 1.34 |  0.41
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| Turnout | 133,906 | 93.54 | 0.04
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| Registered electors | 143,148 | 1.37
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| WP gain from PAP | Swing | 10.81
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| WP | Low Thia Khiang Pritam Singh Sylvia Lim Muhamad Faisal Manap Chen Show Mao |
70,050 | 50.96 | 3.76
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| PAP | Yeo Guat Kwang Victor Lye Chua Eng Leong Shamsul Kamar Murali Pillai |
67,424 | 49.04 | 3.76
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| Majority | 2,626 | 1.92 | 7.52
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| Total valid votes | 137,474 | 98.82 | 0.16
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| Rejected ballots | 1,638 | 1.18 | 0.16
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| Turnout | 139,112 | 93.90 | 0.36
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| Registered electors | 148,142 | 3.48
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| WP hold | Swing | 3.76
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Elections in 2020s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| WP | Gerald Giam Pritam Singh Muhamad Faisal Manap Sylvia Lim Leon Perera |
85,815 | 59.95 | 8.99
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| PAP | Victor Lye Alex Yeo Chan Hui Yuh Chua Eng Leong Shamsul Kamar |
57,330 | 40.05 | 8.99
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| Majority | 28,485 | 19.90 | 17.98
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| Total valid votes | 143,145 | 98.91 | 0.09
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| Rejected ballots | 1,582 | 1.09 | 0.09
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| Turnout | 144,727 | 95.96 | 2.06
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| Registered electors | 150,821 | 1.81
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| WP hold | Swing | 8.99
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| WP | Gerald Giam Fadli Fawzi Kenneth Tiong Pritam Singh Sylvia Lim |
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| PAP | Adrian Ang Chan Hui Yuh Daniel Liu Faisal Abdul Aziz Jagathiswaran Rajo |
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| Total valid votes | |||||
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| Registered electors | 144,032 | 4.50
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See also
[edit]References
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- ^ "GE2015: Recount underway for Aljunied GRC, margin less than 2 per cent". The Straits Times. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
- ^ "Singapore GE2020: Workers' Party's Low Thia Khiang, Chen Show Mao and Png Eng Huat step down, will not contest next GE". Straits Times. Archived from the original on 27 June 2020. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
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- ^ Ng, Wei Kiat (12 August 2024). "PAP appoints two new faces in WP-controlled Aljunied GRC". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 1 September 2024. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
- ^ Ng, Wei Kai; Goh, Yan Han (12 February 2025). "PAP set to replace three branch chairpersons in Aljunied GRC; second refresh in 6 months". The Straits Times. ISSN 0585-3923. Archived from the original on 14 February 2025. Retrieved 11 March 2025.
- ^ Koh, Fabian (11 March 2025). "GE2025: Extensive changes to electoral boundaries due to population shifts; only 5 GRCs, 4 SMCs left intact". CNA. Archived from the original on 12 March 2025. Retrieved 11 March 2025.
- ^ "1988 PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS". Archived from the original on 30 November 2018. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
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- ^ "1991 PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS". Archived from the original on 6 August 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ^ "1997 PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS". Archived from the original on 28 November 2018. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
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- ^ "Singapore Parliamentary General Election 2006 > Aljunied GRC". sg-elections.com. Archived from the original on 1 May 2011. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
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