West Coast Group Representation Constituency

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West Coast
Group Representation Constituency
for the Parliament of Singapore
West Coast GRC locator map.svg
RegionWest Region, Singapore
Electorate146,251
Current constituency
Created1997; 24 years ago (1997)
Seats5
PartyPAP logo variation.svg People's Action Party
Member(s)S Iswaran
Desmond Lee
Foo Mee Har
Rachel Ong
Ang Wei Neng
Town CouncilWest Coast
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The West Coast Group Representation Constituency is a five-member Group Representation Constituency located in the western area of Singapore. The five divisions are Ayer Rajah-Gek Poh, West Coast, Boon Lay, Nanyang and Telok Blangah. West Coast GRC covers the areas of Ayer Rajah, Dover, Pasir Panjang, the south-western area, West Coast, Jurong, Jurong Island, Sentosa, Telok Blangah, Tuas and much of Singapore's southern & western territorial waters and offshore islands in the area. The current MPs are S Iswaran, Desmond Lee, Foo Mee Har, Rachel Ong and Ang Wei Neng.[1]

History[]

The constituency was a four-member GRC in 1997 and was expanded to five, when the constituency was redrawn to include the areas of the now defunct Boon Lay Single Member Constituency and the Jurong area of Bukit Timah Group Representation Constituency. In 2006, West Coast again absorbed Ayer Rajah Single Member Constituency and merged with S Iswaran's West Coast seat to form the Ayer Rajah-West Coast division. In 2011, Cedric Foo's Pioneer ward was crafted out a single member constituency, while the Jurong Industrial, Jurong Island and Tuas had been absorbed into Ayer Rajah's constituency. In 2015, the GRC was downsized to four members after the Clementi division was transferred to the nearby Jurong GRC. The constituency was increased to five seats ahead of the 2020, after the Nanyang division of Chua Chu Kang GRC and the Jurong West section of Hong Kah North SMC were merged into the constituency.

The constituency faced a contest against the Workers' Party in the 1997 general election. The constituency received walkovers in the 2001 and 2006 general elections. A team of Reform Party of Singapore, led by secretary-general Kenneth Jeyaretnam, challenged the PAP in the 2011 elections, and again in 2015.

Lim Hng Kiang was the anchor minister of the GRC until his retirement from the cabinet in 2018. In 2011, the GRC was led by Lim and S Iswaran. Regarded as a test bed for new PAP candidates, from 2011 to 2015, Lawrence Wong was the semi-anchor minister of West Coast GRC, before moving to Marsiling–Yew Tee GRC. From 2015 to 2020, Patrick Tay was also the MP for Boon Lay before moving to Pioneer SMC to replace retiring Cedric Foo. In 2020, Desmond Lee was moved to the constituency from Jurong Spring. In the 2020 general election, West Coast GRC was won by the PAP team with the lowest margin of the election at just 51.68% of the votes over the PSP.

Town Council[]

West Coast Town Council are operating under the Pioneer SMC and West Coast GRC.

Members of Parliament[]

Election Division Members of Parliament Party
1997
  • Clementi
  • Pasir Panjang
  • Telok Blangah
  • West Coast
PAP
2001
  • Boon Lay
  • Clementi
  • Pioneer
  • Telok Blangah
  • West Coast
2006
  • Boon Lay
  • Clementi
  • Pioneer
  • Telok Blangah
  • West Coast - Ayer Rajah
2011
  • Ayer Rajah
  • Boon Lay
  • Clementi
  • Telok Blangah
  • West Coast
2015
  • Ayer Rajah
  • Boon Lay
  • Telok Blangah
  • West Coast
2020
  • Ayer Rajah-Gek Poh
  • Boon Lay
  • Nanyang
  • Telok Blangah
  • West Coast

Electoral results[]

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 1990s[]

General Election 1997: West Coast GRC[2]
Party Candidate Votes %
PAP S Iswaran
Lim Hng Kiang
Bernard Chen
Wan Soon Bee
48,275 70.14
WP Mike Chan
D'Cruz Anthony
John Gan Eng Guan
Ng Teck Siong
20,550 29.86
Majority 27,725 40.2
Turnout 70,587 95.4
PAP win (new seat)

Elections in 2000s[]

General Election 2001: West Coast GRC
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PAP S Iswaran
Lim Hng Khiang
Cedric Foo
Arthur Fong
Madeline Ho
Unopposed
Registered electors 110,779
PAP hold
General Election 2006: West Coast GRC
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PAP S Iswaran
Lim Hng Khiang
Cedric Foo
Arthur Fong
Madeline Ho
Unopposed
Registered electors 137,739
PAP hold

Elections in 2010s[]

General Election 2011: West Coast GRC
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PAP S Iswaran
Lim Hng Kiang
Arthur Jen Fong
Lawrence Wong
Foo Mee Har
72,563 66.66 N/A
RP Kenneth Jeyaretnam
Andy Zhu
Frankie Low
Kumar Appavoo
Haren Hu
36,443 33.34 N/A
Majority 36,120 33.2 N/A
Turnout 111,827 92.4 N/A
PAP hold Swing N/A
General Election 2015: West Coast GRC
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PAP S Iswaran
Lim Hng Kiang
Foo Mee Har
Patrick Tay
71,091 78.57 Increase11.91
RP Kenneth Jeyaretnam
Andy Zhu
Darren Soh
Noraini Yunus
19,392 21.43 Decrease11.91
Majority 51,699 57.1 Increase23.9
Rejected ballots 2,415 1.83 -
Turnout 92,898 93.6 Increase1.2
PAP hold Swing Increase11.91

Elections in 2020s[]

General Election 2020: West Coast GRC[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PAP S Iswaran
Desmond Lee Ti-Seng
Foo Mee Har
Rachel Ong Sin Yen
Ang Wei Neng
71,658 51.68 Decrease26.89
PSP Tan Cheng Bock
Hazel Poa
Nadarajah Loganathan
Jeffrey Khoo
Leong Mun Wai
66,996 48.32 N/A
Majority 4,662 3.36 Decrease53.74
Rejected ballots 1,645 1.17 Decrease0.66
Turnout 140,299 95.8 Increase2.2
Registered electors 146,251
PAP hold Swing Decrease26.89

References[]

  1. ^ Ng, Kelly (30 June 2020). "GE2020: PAP's West Coast team led by ministers S Iswaran, Desmond Lee up against Tan Cheng Bock's PSP". Business Times. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  2. ^ "1997 PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS". Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  3. ^ "Statement of Poll for the Electoral Division of West Coast" (PDF). Retrieved 19 October 2020.

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