West Coast Group Representation Constituency
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West Coast | |
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Group Representation Constituency for the Parliament of Singapore | |
Region | West Region, Singapore |
Electorate | 146,251 |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Seats | 5 |
Party | People's Action Party |
Member(s) | S Iswaran Desmond Lee Foo Mee Har Rachel Ong Ang Wei Neng |
Town Council | West 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 |
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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[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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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[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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PAP | S Iswaran Lim Hng Khiang Cedric Foo Arthur Fong Madeline Ho |
Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 110,779 | ||||
PAP hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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PAP | S Iswaran Lim Hng Khiang Cedric Foo Arthur Fong Madeline Ho |
Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 137,739 | ||||
PAP hold |
Elections in 2010s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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PAP | S Iswaran Lim Hng Kiang Foo Mee Har Patrick Tay |
71,091 | 78.57 | 11.91 | |
RP | Kenneth Jeyaretnam Andy Zhu Darren Soh Noraini Yunus |
19,392 | 21.43 | 11.91 | |
Majority | 51,699 | 57.1 | 23.9 | ||
Rejected ballots | 2,415 | 1.83 | - | ||
Turnout | 92,898 | 93.6 | 1.2 | ||
PAP hold | Swing | 11.91 |
Elections in 2020s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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PAP | S Iswaran Desmond Lee Ti-Seng Foo Mee Har Rachel Ong Sin Yen Ang Wei Neng |
71,658 | 51.68 | 26.89 | |
PSP | Tan Cheng Bock Hazel Poa Nadarajah Loganathan Jeffrey Khoo Leong Mun Wai |
66,996 | 48.32 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,662 | 3.36 | 53.74 | ||
Rejected ballots | 1,645 | 1.17 | 0.66 | ||
Turnout | 140,299 | 95.8 | 2.2 | ||
Registered electors | 146,251 | ||||
PAP hold | Swing | 26.89 |
References[]
- ^ 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.
- ^ "1997 PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS". Retrieved 19 October 2020.
- ^ "Statement of Poll for the Electoral Division of West Coast" (PDF). Retrieved 19 October 2020.
- 2015 General Election's result
- 2011 General Election's result
- 2006 General Election's result
- 2001 General Election's result
- Singaporean electoral divisions
- Boon Lay
- Bukit Merah
- Clementi
- Jurong East
- Jurong West
- Pioneer, Singapore
- Queenstown, Singapore
- Southern Islands
- Tuas
- Western Islands Planning Area