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The new electoral map There will be a total of 31 electoral divisions, made up of 14 single-member constituencies and 17 group representation constituencies. An estimated 2,594,740 Singaporeans will vote for 93 MPs in the coming election. NEW BOUNDARIES 5-member GRC Single-member constituencies (SMC) KEBUN BARU SMC YIO CHU KANG SMC 4-member GRC New SEMBAWANG GRC MARYMOUNT SMC Pulau PUNGGOL WEST SMC Seletar PASIR RIS- SENGKANG GRC PUNGGOL GRC Pulau Tekong MARSILING- NEE SOON YEW TEE GRC GRC Pulau Ubin Pulau Serangoon CHUA CHU KANG GRC HOLLAND- ANG MO KIO BUKIT PANJANG BUKIT TIMAH GRC SMC GRC HONG KAH BUKIT NORTH SMC ALJUNIED TAMPINES BATOK GRC GRC SMC BISHAN-TOA EAST COAST PIONEER PAYOH GRC GRC SMC WEST COAST GRC JALAN MARINE PARADE TANJONG BESAR GRC PAGAR GRC GRC At least one candidate must be HOUGANG SMC Indian or non-Malay minority • Ang Mo Kio • Nee Soon MOUNTBATTEN SMC • Holland-Bukit Timah • Tanjong Pagar MACPHERSON SMC • Jurong • West Coast Pulau Brani At least one candidate must be Malay Jurong YUHUA JURONG POTONG PASIR SMC Island SMC GRC • Aljunied • Marsiling-Yew Tee • Bishan-Toa Payoh • Pasir Ris-Punggol RADIN MAS SMC Sentosa • Chua Chu Kang • Sembawang • East Coast • Sengkang • Jalan Besar • Tampines • Marine Parade 5-MEMBER GRCs Nee Soon West Coast Marsiling-Yew Tee Expressway to Chua Chu Kang Pioneer (143,174) (144,516) (114,243) GRC, but will take from the GRC (24,679) Aljunied the part bounded by Bukit Batok • The southern chunk of • Will gain one MP to become • Will take in parts of Sembawang Road and Brickland Road. • Unchanged. (Number of electors: 150,303) Nee Soon GRC, below the Seletar a ve-member GRC. GRC around the Woodlands Potong Pasir • Unchanged. Expressway, will be carved out to • Will take in parts of Hong Kah Regional Library, Singapore Sports Hougang form Kebun Baru SMC. School, and Innova Junior College. (18,551) North SMC and Chua Chu Kang (25,629) Ang Mo Kio Parts of Sembawang GRC will GRC, thereby including Nanyang • Will take in parts of Marine Parade • • Unchanged. (180,186) go into Nee Soon GRC, which will Technological University and Sengkang GRC bounded by MacPherson Road, Paya Lebar Road and Bartley Road. • Will be downsized from six to stretch to cover Simpang and completely surrounding (117,546) Kebun Baru Seletar Island. Pioneer SMC. A new GRC, which will take in ve members. • (22,413) Punggol West Some parts of the GRC will go parts of Sengkang West SMC and • Pasir Ris-Punggol the whole of Punggol East SMC – • A new SMC, which will be carved (25,440) to the new Yio Chu Kang SMC. out from Nee Soon GRC. A new SMC, which will be carved But it will take in areas of the (161,952) 4-MEMBER GRCs both of which will be removed • It will be sandwiched between out from Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC. current Sengkang West SMC • Will be downsized from six to Bishan-Toa Payoh from the electoral map – and • which lie on the left side of ve members. include parts of Ang Mo Kio GRC. Holland-Bukit Timah GRC to its • These are the areas bounded by (100,036) Sungei Punggol. • Some areas will go to Punggol • It will be bounded by Tampines west and the new Yio Chu Kang the Tampines Expressway, Sungei West SMC and Sengkang GRC. • Will be downsized from a Expressway, Sengkang East SMC to its east. Punggol and the imaginary East Coast ve-member GRC. Part of it – from Avenue and Buangkok Drive. boundary between Block 206A Bishan North – will be carved out MacPherson and Block 205A. (120,239) Sembawang to form the new Marymount SMC. (27,652) • Will gain one MP to (139,724) Radin Mas SMCs • Unchanged. become a ve-member GRC. • Will lose parts bounded by Chua Chu Kang (25,167) Woodlands Avenue 5 to • East Coast GRC will re-absorb (103,231) Bukit Batok Marymount • Unchanged. Fengshan SMC, which was Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC, and Will give up some parts to West (29,389) carved out only in the last Simpang to Nee Soon GRC. • (23,439) Yio Chu Kang Coast GRC, including the area with election. • Unchanged. • A new SMC, which will be carved (26,046) Tampines Nanyang Technological University. out from Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC. Bukit Panjang • A new SMC, which will take in the Jurong (147,249) • It will be bounded by Ang Mo Kio areas currently in Ang Mo Kio GRC, Holland-Bukit Timah (35,258) (129,933) • Will take in parts of Pasir Avenue 1, Marymount Road and bounded by Seletar Expressway (112,999) Unchanged. • Unchanged. Ris-Punggol GRC, bounded by • also the southern fence of and moving down along Ang Mo Tampines Expressway and • Unchanged. Catholic High School and Whitley Kio Avenue 6 towards Ang Mo Kio Marine Parade Tampines Road. Hong Kah North Secondary School. Avenue 1. Jalan Besar (23,519) (137,906) Tanjong Pagar (106,578) Will lose the part bounded by Mountbatten Yuhua Part of the area near • • Will take in parts of Bishan-Toa Chua Chu Kang Road, Jalan Bahar, (23,957) (21,188) Woodleigh MRT station will be (132,598) • Payoh GRC around Balestier Road. Pan-Island Expressway and Kranji Unchanged. given up to Potong Pasir SMC. • Unchanged. • Unchanged. • NUMBERS AT A GLANCE Constituency with the Constituency with the Average number least number of voters most number of voters of MPs per GRC Number of voters Potong Pasir Ang Mo Kio GRC 4.65 2,594,740 as on April 15, 2019 18,551 180,186 Down from 4.75 in An increase of 134,256 from 2,460,484 in 2015 last general election Number of voters who will be in a different constituency 384,202 Number of voters who will no longer be in GRCs, but in SMCs 80,329 Number of voters who will no longer be in SMCs, but in GRCs 121,673 Source: REPORT OF THE ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES REVIEW COMMITTEE, 2020 PHOTO: ST FILE STRAITS TIMES GRAPHICS.