Aljunied Group Representation Constituency
| Aljunied | |
|---|---|
| Group Representation constituency for the Parliament of Singapore | |
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| Region | North-East and East Regions, Singapore |
| Electorate | 144,032 |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1988 |
| Seats | 5 |
| Party | Workers' Party |
| Members | Fadli Fawzi Gerald Giam Sylvia Lim Pritam Singh Kenneth Tiong |
| Town Council | Aljunied–Hougang |
| Created from | |
The Aljunied Group Representation Constituency is a five-member group representation constituency (GRC) in north-eastern and eastern Singapore. It has five divisions: Bedok Reservoir–Punggol, Eunos, Kaki Bukit, Paya Lebar and Serangoon, managed by Aljunied–Hougang Town Council. The current Members of Parliament (MPs) for the constituency are Fadli Fawzi, Gerald Giam, Sylvia Lim, Pritam Singh, and Kenneth Tiong from the Workers' Party (WP).
History
[edit]1988–2000: Creation and SDP contests
[edit]Aljunied GRC was formed in 1988 and was won by the governing People's Action Party (PAP) against the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) with 56.33% of the vote in a straight fight.[1][2] It was uncontested in 1991.[3] The SDP returned to the GRC in 1997, but with a much poorer result compared to 1988, garnering only 32.98% of the vote compared to the 43.67% they had previously garnered.[4]
2001–2010: Entry of WP and 2006 general election
[edit]Aljunied GRC was uncontested again in 2001;[5] the WP had attempted to nominate a team for the GRC, however, it was disqualified.[6] In 2006, the WP successfully nominated a team for the GRC, which lost with 43.91% of the vote.[7] By virtue of the WP team's performance, the sole non-constituency MP (NCMP) seat at the election was offered to one of their members; Sylvia Lim accepted it.[8]
2011–present: WP representation
[edit]In 2011, party leader Low Thia Khiang, who had left his seat at Hougang Single Member Constituency (SMC), led a WP team in Aljunied GRC against the PAP team led by George Yeo and Lim Hwee Hua. With 54.72% of the vote, they won the first GRC for the opposition since the creation of GRCs in 1988.[9][10] Yeo and Lim were the first two cabinet ministers since Singaporean independence, as well as the 1963 election, to be defeated for reelection.[11] During the campaign, then-Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew threatened that voters in Aljunied GRC would "repent" for the following five years if they voted for the WP, leading to post-election speculation that the threat had backfired for the PAP.[12]
2015: Vote recount and near-loss
[edit]In 2015, a PAP team led by Yeo Guat Kwang, then-MP for Ang Mo Kio GRC and former MP for Aljunied GRC, contested Aljunied GRC.[11] After the vote count was completed, they requested a recount as the initial difference in votes between the PAP and WP teams was less than 2% of the vote.[10] Following the recount, Aljunied GRC's electoral result was declared last at around 3.10am the morning after Election Day; the unchanged WP team retained it by only 1.9% of the vote, or 2,612 votes.[10][a] It was later revealed that the PAP had won in the divisions of Serangoon and Paya Lebar, which Yeo and Murali Pillai would respectively have represented, by around 300 votes each.[14]
2020: WP entrenchment
[edit]In 2020, Low and Chen Show Mao declined to run for re-election.[15] Led by new party leader Pritam Singh, the WP retained the GRC with 59.95% of the vote, a 9% swing in their favour from the previous election.[16][17]
Resignation of Leon Perera
[edit]In July 2023, a video surfaced that allegedly showed Leon Perera holding hands "intimately" with fellow WP member Nicole Seah. On 19 July, Singh revealed that the two had begun an affair some time after the 2020 general election, which had ended before the video surfaced. Perera resigned from Parliament and the WP on the same day while Seah had already done so the previous day. After Perera's resignation, the workload for Serangoon was distributed among the other MPs in Aljunied GRC.[18]
2025 general election
[edit]In August 2024, the PAP appointed Jagathishwaran Rajo and Kenny Sim to replace Chua Eng Leong and Alex Yeo respectively as the chairpersons of the Eunos and Paya Lebar PAP branches.[19] The PAP again replaced three of its five Aljunied branch chairpersons[b] in February 2025, appointing Faisal Abdul Aziz, Daniel Liu and Adrian Ang to replace Kenny Sim, Shamsul Kamar and Victor Lye.[22]
On 11 March 2025, the Elections Department updated the electoral divisions for the general election later in the same year. Polling districts in Aljunied GRC to the east of Bedok Reservoir were absorbed by Tampines GRC; the number of MPs for Aljunied GRC remained at five. This was the first time an opposition-held constituency had its boundaries redrawn.[24]
Prior to the same election, the WP announced 2 new candidates for the GRC: Fadli Fawzi, former candidate for Marine Parade GRC, and political newcomer Kenneth Tiong. They were to contest alongside the incumbent MPs, except Faisal Manap, who had been deployed to lead the WP team for Tampines GRC.[25] Despite a national swing towards the PAP, the WP retained the GRC with 59.71% of the vote, a vote share similar to that of 2020.[17][26]
Members of Parliament
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Electoral results
[edit]Note : Elections Department Singapore do not include rejected votes for calculation of candidate's vote share. Hence, the total of all candidates' vote share will be 100%.
Elections in 1980s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PAP | Chin Harn Tong George Yeo Wan Hussin Zoohri |
34,020 | 56.33 | |
| SDP | Jufrie Mahmood Ashleigh Seow Neo Choon Aik |
26,375 | 43.67 | |
| Majority | 7,645 | 12.67 | ||
| Total valid votes | 98.06 | 60,395 | ||
| Rejected ballots | 1,197 | 1.94 | ||
| Turnout | 61,592 | 94.24 | ||
| Registered electors | 65,351 | |||
| PAP win (new seat) | ||||
Elections in 1990s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| PAP | Chin Harn Tong George Yeo Mohamad Maidin bin Packer Ker Sin Tze |
Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 94,490 |  44.59
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| PAP hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| PAP | Toh See Kiat David Lim Sidek Saniff George Yeo Ker Sin Tze |
64,299 | 67.02 | N/A | |
| SDP | Aziz Ibrahim Kwan Yue Keng S. Kunalen Tay Hoon Wong Hong Toy |
31,645 | 32.98 | N/A | |
| Majority | 32,954 | 34.04 | N/A | ||
| Total valid votes | 95,944 | 97.00 | N/A | ||
| Rejected ballots | 2,971 | 3.00 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 98,915 | 95.60 | N/A | ||
| Registered electors | 103,466 | 9.50
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Elections in 2000s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| PAP | Ong Seh Hong Yeo Guat Kwang George Yeo Zainul Abidin Cynthia Phua |
Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 125,115 | 20.92
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| PAP | Yeo Guat Kwang George Yeo Zainul Abidin Cynthia Phua Lim Hwee Hua |
74,843 | 56.09 | N/A | |
| WP | Sylvia Lim Goh Meng Seng James Gomez Tan Wui-Hua Mohammed Rahizan Bin Yaacob |
58,593 | 43.91 | N/A | |
| Majority | 16,250 | 12.18 | N/A | ||
| Total valid votes | 133,436 | 98.25 | N/A | ||
| Rejected ballots | 2,381 | 1.75 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 135,817 | 93.58 | N/A | ||
| Registered electors | 145,141 | 16.00
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Elections in 2010s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| WP | Low Thia Khiang Sylvia Lim Faisal Manap Chen Show Mao Pritam Singh |
72,289 | 54.72 | 10.81
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| PAP | George Yeo Lim Hwee Hua Zainul Abidin Cynthia Phua Ong Ye Kung |
59,829 | 45.28 |  10.81
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| Majority | 12,460 | 9.44 | 2.74
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| Total valid votes | 132,118 | 98.66 | 0.41
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| Rejected ballots | 1,788 | 1.34 |  0.41
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| Turnout | 133,906 | 93.54 | 0.04
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| Registered electors | 143,148 | 1.37
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| WP gain from PAP | Swing | 10.81
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| WP | Low Thia Khiang Sylvia Lim Faisal Manap Chen Show Mao Pritam Singh |
70,050 | 50.96 | 3.76
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| PAP | Yeo Guat Kwang Victor Lye Chua Eng Leong Shamsul Kamar Murali Pillai |
67,424 | 49.04 | 3.76
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| Majority | 2,626 | 1.92 | 7.52
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| Total valid votes | 137,474 | 98.82 | 0.16
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| Rejected ballots | 1,638 | 1.18 | 0.16
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| Turnout | 139,112 | 93.90 | 0.36
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| Registered electors | 148,142 | 3.48
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| WP hold | Swing | 3.76
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Elections in 2020s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| WP | Pritam Singh Sylvia Lim Faisal Manap Gerald Giam Leon Perera |
85,815 | 59.95 | 8.99
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| PAP | Victor Lye Chua Eng Leong Shamsul Kamar Chan Hui Yuh Alex Yeo |
57,330 | 40.05 | 8.99
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| Majority | 28,485 | 19.90 | 17.98
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| Total valid votes | 143,145 | 98.91 | 0.09
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| Rejected ballots | 1,582 | 1.09 | 0.09
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| Turnout | 144,727 | 95.96 | 2.06
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| Registered electors | 150,821 | 1.81
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| WP hold | Swing | 8.99
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| WP | Fadli Fawzi Gerald Giam Sylvia Lim Pritam Singh Kenneth Tiong |
79,254 | 59.71 | 0.24
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| PAP | Chan Hui Yuh Adrian Ang Daniel Liu Faisal Abdul Aziz Jagathiswaran Rajo |
53,471 | 40.29 | 0.24
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| Majority | 25,783 | 19.42 | 0.48
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| Total valid votes | 132,725 | 99.00 | 0.09
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| Rejected ballots | 1,342 | 1.00 | 0.09
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| Turnout | 134,067 | 92.91 | 3.05
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| Registered electors | 144,298 | 4.32
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| WP hold | Swing | 0.24
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Notes
[edit]- ^ 1.92% or 2,626 votes after counting of overseas votes.[13]
- ^ Another name for a "grassroots advisor", an individual appointed for "grassroots engagement and outreach" in a GRC division or SMC who, according to the People's Association (PA), has to be aligned with the "Government of the day". They do not need to be the elected MP for the area.[20][21][22][23]
- ^ Perera resigned in 2023 after his affair was exposed.
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- ^ a b Clement Yong; Isabelle Liew; Claudia Tan (4 May 2025). "GE2025: WP retains strongholds in Aljunied and Hougang despite national swing to PAP". The Straits Times. ISSN 0585-3923. Archived from the original on 22 July 2025. Retrieved 6 May 2025.
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