Whampoa Single Member Constituency

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Whampoa Single Member Constituency was a single-member constituency (SMC) in central Singapore. At abolition, it was managed by Moulmein–Kallang Town Council.

History

In 1955, Whampoa Constituency was newly formed by carving out from the old Balestier Constituency. In 1959, the constituency was absorbed into Kallang Constituency.

In 1968, Whampoa Constituency was recreated as a standalone constituency by again carving out from Kallang Constituency. In 1988, it was renamed as Whampoa Single Member Constituency as part of Singapore's political reforms. It existed for another term until 1991 when it was abolished and divided into Kampong Glam, Jalan Besar and Toa Payoh Group Representation Constituencies.

In 2011, Whampoa Single Member Constituency was recreated by carving out from Jalan Besar Group Representation Constituency (GRC) as Jalan Besar GRC was dissolved and was replaced by Moulmein–Kallang and Tanjong Pagar GRCs respectively. Heng Chee How contested as a solo PAP candidate in the newly formed Whampoa SMC and won with 66.1% of the vote against the National Solidarity Party's Ken Sun. This was despite a national swing against the PAP. It was later merged back to the revived Jalan Besar GRC again in the 2015 Singaporean general election.

Member of Parliament

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 1970s

General Election 1972: Whampoa

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Augustine Tan Hui Heng	8,773	78.55	N/A
	PF	Phang Juet Haw	2,395	21.45	N/A
Majority			6,378	57.1	N/A
Registered electors			12,044		0.06
Turnout			11,401	94.66	N/A
	PAP hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1976: Whampoa

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Augustine Tan Hui Heng	14,636	80.98	2.43
	WP	Mohamed Shariff bin Yahya	3,438	19.02	N/A
Majority			11,198	61.96	4.86
Registered electors			19,259		59.9
Turnout			18,468	95.89	1.2
	PAP hold		Swing	2.43

Elections in 1980s

General Election 1980: Whampoa

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Augustine Tan Hui Heng	Unopposed
Registered electors			19,131		0.66
	PAP hold

General Election 1984: Whampoa

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Augustine Tan Hui Heng	Unopposed
Registered electors			18,494		3.33
	PAP hold

General Election 1988: Whampoa

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Augustine Tan Hui Heng	7,522	59.47	N/A
	NSP	Ken Sun	5,126	40.53	N/A
Majority			2,396	18.94	N/A
Registered electors			13,819		25.28
Turnout			12,841	92.92	N/A
	PAP hold

Historical maps

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  1955 General Election

References

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