Paya Lebar Single Member Constituency

Paya Lebar
Single Member constituency
for the Parliament of Singapore
RegionSingapore
Current constituency
Created1955
Seats1
MemberConstituency Abolished
Replaced byAljunied GRC

Paya Lebar Single Member Constituency was a constituency in Singapore.

It used to exist from 1955 to 1988 as Paya Lebar Constituency and was renamed as Paya Lebar Single Member Constituency (SMC) as part of Singapore's political reforms. The SMC was merged into Aljunied Group Representation Constituency in 1991.

Member of Parliament

Year Member of Parliament Party
Legislative Assembly of Singapore
1955 Lim Koon Teck PP
1959 Tan Kia Gan PAP
1963 Kow Kee Seng BS
Parliament of Singapore
1968 Tay Boon Too PAP
1972
1976 Tan Cheng San
1980 Sia Kah Hui
1984 Philip Tan Tee Yong
1988

Electoral results

Note: The Elections Department does not include rejected votes when calculating the vote shares of candidates. Hence, all candidates' vote shares will total to 100% at any given election (may not appear so in multi-way contests due to rounding).

Elections in 1950s

General Election 1955: Paya Lebar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PP Lim Koon Teck 3,330 52.1
DP Tan Eng Joo 3,065 47.9
Majority 265 4.2 N/A
Turnout 6,494 50.6
PP win (new seat)
General Election 1959: Paya Lebar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PAP Tan Kia Gan 6,531 60.8
Independent Ong Chye Hock 4,209 39.2
Majority 2,322 21.6 N/A
Turnout 10,842 89.7
PAP gain from SPA Swing

Elections in 1960s

General Election 1963: Paya Lebar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BS Kow Kee Seng 6,152 48.0
PAP Tan Kia Gan 5,402 42.1 −18.7
UPP Lau Tok Keong 858 6.7
SA Goh Yeow Dek 415 3.2
Majority 750 5.9
Turnout 12,946 95.6
BS gain from PAP Swing

Historical maps

References

  1. ↑ "ELD | 1955 Legislative Assembly General Election Results". eld.gov.sg.