4-MEMBER Grcs SINGLE-MEMBER CONSTITUENCIES (Continued)

SINGLE-MEMBER CONSTITUENCIES (continued) Radin Mas 28,885 voters Sengkang West 30,097 voters Yuhua 22,599 voters PAP RP Independent PAP WP PAP SDP Sam Tan, 56 Kumar Appavoo, 46 Han Hui Hui, 24 Lam Pin Min, 46 Koh Choong Yong, 40 Grace Fu, 51 Jaslyn Go, 43 • The 2011 election marked the reappearance of Radin Mas as a single seat and the rst • The new estate is entirely public housing and many • After the PAP’s narrow win in 1991 with 56.2 per cent of time residents there could vote since 1988, when it was last an SMC. Then the PAP won residents are young families. the vote, Yuhua was absorbed into Jurong GRC. When it with 67.1 per cent of the vote. • Since the ward was carved out in 2011, its population has was carved out again in 2011, the PAP took 66.9 per cent • Highlighted as an elderly ward even back in 2007, during PM Lee’s National Day Rally more than doubled. Three polling districts were hived off instead. speech, it has a larger-than-average proportion of elderly residents. to Ang Mo Kio GRC in the latest boundary changes. • Since 1984, the ward has had a female MP: Mrs Yu-Foo • In 2011, the PAP won with 58.1 per cent of the vote. Yee Shoon until 2006, followed by Ms Grace Fu, who is a Cabinet minister. 4-MEMBER GRCs Chua Chu Kang 119,848 voters East Coast 99,015 voters PAP PAP Gan Kim Yong, 56 Low Yen Ling, 41 Yee Chia Hsing, 44 Zaqy Mohamad, 40 Lim Swee Say, 61 Lee Yi Shyan, 53 Mohamad Maliki Jessica Tan, 49 Osman, 50 PPP WP Goh Meng Seng, 45 Low Wai Choo, 55 Lee Tze Shih, 42 Syafarin Sarif, 39 Gerald Giam, 37 Leon Perera, 44 Mohamed Daniel Goh, 42 Fairoz Shariff, 36 • The former ve-member GRC lost Alex Yam’s Yew Tee ward to Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC in the recent • The scene of the PAP’s closest GRC win in 2011, East Coast GRC is expected to be a hot battleground boundary changes. once more. The PAP’s share of the vote was 54.8 per cent to WP’s 45.2 per cent. • The PAP got 61.2 per cent of the vote against the NSP’s “A” team in 2011. • Having lost Fengshan ward, it is the smallest GRC by number of voters. Holland-Bukit Timah 104,397 voters Jalan Besar 102,454 voters PAP PAP Vivian Balakrishnan, Christopher Liang Eng Hwa, 51 Sim Ann, 40 Yaacob Ibrahim, 59 Denise Phua, 55 Lily Neo, 62 Heng Chee How, 54 54 de Souza, 39 SDP WP Chee Soon Juan, 53 Paul Tambyah, 50 Sidek Mallek, 55 Chong Wai Fung, 45 L Somasundaram, 52 Frieda Chan, 39 Redzwan Haﬁdz, 30 Adrian Sim, 43 • The 2011 election was the rst time any of the four PAP candidates had faced a contest. This will be • Dissolved in 2011 due to the formation of the short-lived Moulmein-Kallang GRC, Jalan Besar GRC their second. makes a return this election. • It is the GRC with the highest share of private housing. • The GRC has a larger lower-income base, with signicant rental housing and a higher-than-average • Though pundits expected a erce ght against the SDP’s “A” team in 2011, the PAP took 60.1 per cent proportion of voters in one- to three-room ats. of the vote, in line with the national average..

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