Aljunied Group Representation Constituency

Not to be confused with the smaller constituency with similar name of Aljunied Single Member Constituency
Aljunied Single Member Constituency
Aljunied Single Member Constituency is a defunct single member constituency in Aljunied, Singapore that was formed in 1959 and continued throughout till 1988 where it was one of the wards that form the Aljunied Group Representation Constituency.-Members of Parliament:*Suppiah Visva Lingam *Mohamad...

, which existed since the pre-independence era. This article is describing an present ward.

Aljunied Group Representation Constituency (Traditional Chinese

Traditional Chinese character

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: 阿裕尼集選區; Simplified Chinese

Simplified Chinese character

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: 阿裕尼集选区) is a five-member group representation constituency

Group Representation Constituency

A Group Representation Constituency is a type of electoral division or constituency in Singapore, the Members of Parliament of which are voted into Parliament as a group...

(GRC) in the north-eastern

North-East Region, Singapore

The North-East Region of Singapore is one of the five regions in the city-state. It includes seven urban planning areas. As its name implies, it is located in the north-eastern part of Singapore.The land area is about 13,810 hectares....

region of Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

. The GRC consists of a large part of Hougang

Hougang

Hougang is an urban planning area and a suburb in the north-eastern area of the city-state of Singapore. Under classification by the Urban Redevelopment Authority, the area is part of the North-East Region, an urban planning division. Hougang borders Sengkang in the north and Serangoon to its...

, Serangoon Gardens

Serangoon Gardens

Serangoon Gardens Estate is a residential estate in Singapore.The estate is well known for its food centres, tuition centers, presence of trend setters, and the food and beverage outlets.-History:...

, a portion of Bedok

Bedok

Bedok is a neighbourhood in the eastern part of Singapore. Bedok New Town is the fifth Housing and Development Board new town; its development started in April 1973 and continued over some 15 years....

and Aljunied

Aljunied

Aljunied is a sub-urban area located in the eastern part of the city-state of Singapore. Named after Aljunied Road, it was formally agricultural land which has since been heavily urbanised and presently comprises a variety of landuses...

. Located within Aljunied GRC is an enclave single member constituency known as Hougang Single Member Constituency

Hougang Single Member Constituency

Hougang Single Member Constituency is a Single Member Constituency whose borders roughly enclose the town of Hougang, located in the north-eastern area of Singapore. The boundary includes a portion of Hougang and is an opposition held seat with its Member of Parliament the Workers' Party's Yaw...

(SMC) which is currently manned by an opposition Member of Parliament

Members of the Singapore Parliament

The following is a historical list of members for the current and past ten Parliaments of Singapore:-See also:*1st Parliament of Singapore*2nd Parliament of Singapore*3rd Parliament of Singapore*4th Parliament of Singapore*5th Parliament of Singapore...

.

Aljunied GRC was formed in 1988 and was held by the People's Action Party

People's Action Party

The People's Action Party is the leading political party in Singapore. It has been the city-state's ruling political party since 1959....

(PAP) till 2011. Currently, Aljunied GRC is led by the Secretary-General of the Workers' Party

Workers' Party of Singapore

The Workers' Party of Singapore is a centre-left opposition political party in Singapore. The party currently has six elected seats in Parliament, with the party's Secretary-General Low Thia Khiang, Chairman Sylvia Lim, Chen Show Mao, Muhamad Faisal Manap and Pritam Singh serving as Members of...

, Low Thia Khiang

Low Thia Khiang

Low Thia Khiang is a politician and businessman from Singapore. He is currently the leader of the opposition Workers' Party, and since 1991 has been a Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Hougang until 2011 where he contested and won in Aljunied GRC. He is in charge of the Bedok...

. This is the first time a Group Representation Constituency

Group Representation Constituency

A Group Representation Constituency is a type of electoral division or constituency in Singapore, the Members of Parliament of which are voted into Parliament as a group...

has been won by a party other than the PAP since the introduction of the Group Representation Constituency concept in 1988

Singaporean general election, 1988

General elections were held in Singapore on 3 September 1988. The result was a victory for the People's Action Party, which won 80 of the 81 seats...

Members of Parliament

Election	Aljunied Aljunied Aljunied is a sub-urban area located in the eastern part of the city-state of Singapore. Named after Aljunied Road, it was formally agricultural land which has since been heavily urbanised and presently comprises a variety of landuses... -Kembangan Kembangan Kembangan may refer to:In SingaporeKembangan, Singapore, a residential areaKembangan MRT Station, an MRT StationKampong Kembangan SMC, a former constituencyIn Indonesia**Kembangan, Jakarta, a subdistrict of West Jakarta...	Kampong Ubi Ubi, Singapore Ubi Estate is a neighbourhood located at east-central Singapore. It lies within a somewhat rhombic piece of land bounded by Airport Road at the north, the Pan-Island Expressway at the south, Eunos Link at the east and Paya Lebar Road at the west. The area was formerly a Malay village known as...	Bedok Reservoir Bedok Reservoir Bedok Reservoir is a reservoir located in the eastern part of Singapore, to the north of Bedok New Town. The reservoir has a surface area of 880,000 m², and a capacity of 12.8 million m³. The mean depth of the reservoir is 9 m, with a maximum depth of 18.2 m... -Punggol Punggol Punggol, or Ponggol, is a neighbourhood in northeastern Singapore. Presently, much of Punggol is undeveloped, although plans to turn the area into a residential new town under the "Punggol 21" initiative have begun to take place in the south-eastern parts of the area bordering neighbouring...	Paya Lebar Paya Lebar Paya Lebar is an area in the north-eastern part of Singapore. It is served by Paya Lebar Station, on the East West Line of Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit system. It is an urban planning area. The Singapore Post Centre is located there too....	Changi Changi Changi is an area at the eastern end of Singapore. It is now the site of Singapore Changi Airport/Changi Air Base, Changi Naval Base and is also home to Changi Prison, site of the former Japanese Prisoner of War Camp during World War II which held Allied prisoners captured in Singapore and Malaysia... -Simei Simei Simei is a housing estate located in the eastern part of Singapore, situated next to Tampines New Town across the Pan-Island Expressway. The name Simei is pinyin for "four beauties" in Chinese. Initially, the roads in this area was named after the four great beauties in Chinese history...	Eunos	Aljunied Aljunied Aljunied is a sub-urban area located in the eastern part of the city-state of Singapore. Named after Aljunied Road, it was formally agricultural land which has since been heavily urbanised and presently comprises a variety of landuses... -Hougang Hougang Hougang is an urban planning area and a suburb in the north-eastern area of the city-state of Singapore. Under classification by the Urban Redevelopment Authority, the area is part of the North-East Region, an urban planning division. Hougang borders Sengkang in the north and Serangoon to its...	Serangoon Serangoon Serangoon is town situated in the central part of the city-state of Singapore, within the North-East Region. The Housing and Development Board housing estate of Serangoon New Town in Serangoon is one of the smaller new towns. Its town centre is known as Serangoon Central, and is the target of...	Kaki Bukit Kaki Bukit Kaki Bukit is a small town in Perlis, Malaysia. It has an estimated population of 3,000. Kaki Bukit is located 16 miles north of the state capital, Kangar and a few miles away from Padang Besar, the boundary of between Thailand and Malaysia.A place of interest in Kaki Bukit is Gua Kelam...
1984 Singaporean general election, 1984 General elections were held in Singapore on 22 December 1984. The result was a victory for the People's Action Party, which won 77 of the 79 seats, marking the first time since 1963 that they had not won every seat...	SMC as Aljunied	SMC	SMC as Kampong Kembangan	SMC	SMC as Changi and Changkat	SMC		SMC as Serangoon Gardens	SMC
Formation
1988 Singaporean general election, 1988 General elections were held in Singapore on 3 September 1988. The result was a victory for the People's Action Party, which won 80 of the 81 seats...	Chin Harn Tong as Aljunied	Wan Hussin B H Zoohri	George Yeo Yong-Boon as Kampong Kembangan Kembangan Kembangan may refer to:In SingaporeKembangan, Singapore, a residential areaKembangan MRT Station, an MRT StationKampong Kembangan SMC, a former constituencyIn Indonesia**Kembangan, Jakarta, a subdistrict of West Jakarta...	SMC	As Changi and Changkat	Eunos GRC		SMC as Serangoon Gardens Serangoon Gardens Serangoon Gardens Estate is a residential estate in Singapore.The estate is well known for its food centres, tuition centers, presence of trend setters, and the food and beverage outlets.-History:...	Eunos GRC
1991 Singaporean general election, 1991 General elections were held in Singapore on 31 August 1991. The result was a victory for the People's Action Party, which won 77 of the 81 seats...	Chin Harn Tong as Aljunied	Mohamad Maidin bin Packer Mohd		Ker Sin Tze	As Changi and Changkat South ward in Tampines GRC	Eunos GRC		Thomson GRC as Serangoon Gardens	Eunos GRC
1997	Toh See Kiat as Aljunied	Marine Parade GRC		Ker Sin Tze	David Lim Tik En	Sidek B Saniff		Marine Parade GRC	East Coast GRC
2001	Ong Seh Hong	Marine Parade GRC	George Yeo Yong-Boon as Kembangan Kembangan Kembangan may refer to:In SingaporeKembangan, Singapore, a residential areaKembangan MRT Station, an MRT StationKampong Kembangan SMC, a former constituencyIn Indonesia**Kembangan, Jakarta, a subdistrict of West Jakarta... -Punggol Punggol Punggol, or Ponggol, is a neighbourhood in northeastern Singapore. Presently, much of Punggol is undeveloped, although plans to turn the area into a residential new town under the "Punggol 21" initiative have begun to take place in the south-eastern parts of the area bordering neighbouring...	Cynthia Phua	East Coast GRC	Zainul Abidin Bin Mohamed Rasheed Zainul Abidin bin Mohamed Rasheed Zainul Abidin bin Mohamed Rasheed is a Singaporean politician and former Member of Parliament who last represented Aljunied GRC from 2001 to 2011.-Education:...	Yeo Guat Kwang	Marine Parade GRC	East Coast GRC
2006	Marine Parade GRC as Kampong Ubi Ubi, Singapore Ubi Estate is a neighbourhood located at east-central Singapore. It lies within a somewhat rhombic piece of land bounded by Airport Road at the north, the Pan-Island Expressway at the south, Eunos Link at the east and Paya Lebar Road at the west. The area was formerly a Malay village known as... -Kembangan Kembangan Kembangan may refer to:In SingaporeKembangan, Singapore, a residential areaKembangan MRT Station, an MRT StationKampong Kembangan SMC, a former constituencyIn Indonesia**Kembangan, Jakarta, a subdistrict of West Jakarta...		George Yeo Yong-Boon	Cynthia Phua			Yeo Guat Kwang	Lim Hwee Hua Lim Hwee Hua Lim Hwee Hua was a Singaporean politician, who was formerly the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office and appointed concurrently as Second Minister for Finance and Second Minister for Transport.-Early career:...	Marine Parade GRC
2011			Low Thia Khiang Low Thia Khiang Low Thia Khiang is a politician and businessman from Singapore. He is currently the leader of the opposition Workers' Party, and since 1991 has been a Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Hougang until 2011 where he contested and won in Aljunied GRC. He is in charge of the Bedok...	Chen Show Mao Chen Show Mao Chen Show Mao, J.D. is a Singaporean politician and lawyer. He is a member of the opposition Workers' Party, and has been a Member of Parliament for the Aljunied Group Representation Constituency since 7 May 2011. He represents the Paya Lebar ward, replacing PAP's Cynthia Phua.-Personal...		Pritam Singh	Ang Mo Kio GRC as Ang Mo Kio Ang Mo Kio Ang Mo Kio（宏茂桥） is a heartland new town located in north central Singapore, and is generally within the North-East Region. It contains many of the common features of the island nation's neighbourhoods, e.g. hawker centres, wet markets and HDB housing blocks. Singapore's Prime Minister, Lee Hsien... -Hougang Hougang Hougang is an urban planning area and a suburb in the north-eastern area of the city-state of Singapore. Under classification by the Urban Redevelopment Authority, the area is part of the North-East Region, an urban planning division. Hougang borders Sengkang in the north and Serangoon to its...	Sylvia Lim Swee Lian	Muhamad Faisal Bin Abdul Manap

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