Marine Parade Group Representation Constituency

Marine Parade Group Representation Constituency.

Not to be confused with another defunct ward called Marine Parade Single Member Constituency (Marine Parade SMC) that existed from 1976 to 1984 where the second Prime Minister of Singapore, Goh Chok Tong had made his debut there and held on since then. Marine Parade SMC is a smaller ward that consist only in Marine Parade town, Singapore without neighbouring areas such as Geylang Serai etc. .

Marine Parade Group Representation Constituency (Traditional Chinese: 馬林百列集選區;Simplified Chinese: 马林百列集选区) is a six-member Group Representation Constituency located in the central, eastern and north-eastern areas of Singapore. The constituency consists of a section of Bedok, Chai Chee, Geylang, Kaki Bukit, Kallang, Kembangan, Marine Parade, Mountbatten, Ubi and a part of Serangoon. Serangoon Gardens was part of the constituency till 2006 when it was moved to Aljunied Group Representation Constituency. On 2011, it minuses off Kaki Bukit portion and in return, MacPherson ward was absorbed and exchanged.

Marine Parade GRC is led by Emeritus Senior Minister and former prime minister Goh Chok Tong.

Before the creation of Marine Parade GRC, he had been the Member of Parliament for the Marine Parade single-seat constituency since being first elected in 1976. The GRC saw its fiercest contest in the general election in 2011 where National Solidarity Party candidates led by Nicole Seah managed to get over 43% of the vote despite walkovers in the previous three general elections. Before 2011, it remained uncontested after the 1992 by-election which saw a four-way contest involving the National Solidarity Party, Singapore Democratic Party and Singapore Justice Party (now part of the Singapore Democratic Alliance).

Members of Parliament

Election	Joo Chiat	Geylang Serai	Marine Parade	MacPherson	Kembangan-Chai Chee	Braddell Heights	Mountbatten	Serangoon	Kaki Bukit
1984	SMC	SMC	SMC	SMC	SMC as Kampong Ubi	SMC	SMC	SMC as Serangoon Gardens	SMC
Formation
1988	Choo Wee Kiang	Othman Haron Eusofe	Goh Chok Tong	SMC	Aljunied GRC as Kampong Ubi	SMC	SMC	SMC as Serangoon Gardens	SMC
1991	Lim Chee Onn			Matthias Yao				Thomson GRC as Serangoon Gardens	Eunos GRC
1992	Teo Chee Hean
1997	East Coast GRC			SMC	Mohamad Maidin bin Packer Mohd as Kampong Ubi	Goh Choon Kang	Yap Giau Keng Eugene	Lim Hwee Hua	East Coast GRC
2001	SMC					R Ravindran	Andy Gan Lai Chiang
2006		Fatimah Lateef			Ong Seh Hong as Kampong Ubi-Kembangan	Seah Kian Peng	Lim Biow Chuan	Aljunied GRC	Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim
2011				Tin Pei Ling	Tan Chuan-Jin		SMC		Aljunied GRC

Candidates and results

Election	Seats	Voters	Party	Candidate(s)	Votes	Votes %
Marine Parade Group Representation Constituency
Singaporean general election, 1988	3	62,835	PAP	Choo Wee Khiang Goh Chok Tong Othman Haron Eusofe	41,325	73.81
			JPS	A R Suib M Ramasamy Theng Chin Eng	14,660	26.19
Singaporean general election, 1991	4	74,032	PAP	Goh Chok Tong Lim Chee Onn Matthias Yao Othman Haron Eusofe	51,685	77.25
			JPS	Aminuddin Bin Ami Rajasekaran K S M Suib Bin Abdul Rahman Theng Chin Eng	15,222	22.75
Singaporean by-election, 1992	4	73,986	PAP	Goh Chok Tong Matthias Yao Othman Haron Eusofe Teo Chee Hean	48,965	72.94
			SDP	Chee Soon Juan Low Yong Nguan Md Shariff bin Yahya Ashleigh Seow Chuan-Hock	16,447	24.50
			SJP	A R Suib Lim Teong Howe Theng Chin Eng Yen Kim Khooi	764	1.14
			NSP	Ken Sunn Sarry bin Hassan Tan Chee Kien Yong Choon Poh	950	1.42
Singaporean general election, 1997	6	142,106	PAP	Goh Chok Tong Goh Choon Kang Lim Hwee Hua Mohamad Maidin bin Packer Mohd Othman Haron Eusofe Yap Giau Cheng Eugene	Walkover	Walkover
Singaporean general election, 2001	6	140,174	PAP	Andy Gan Lai Chiang Goh Chok Tong Lim Hwee Hua Mohamad Maidin bin Packer Mohd Othman Haron Eusofe R Ravindran	Walkover	Walkover
Singaporean general election, 2006	6	155,106	PAP	Fatimah Lateef Goh Chok Tong Lim Biow Chuan Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim Ong Seh Hong Seah Kian Peng	Walkover	Walkover
Singaporean general election, 2011	4	74,032	PAP	Goh Chok Tong Seah Kian Peng Fatimah Lateef Tan Chuan-Jin Tin Pei Ling	78,286	56.64
			NSP	Cheo Chai Chen Nicole Seah Abdul Salim Harun Spencer Ng Ivan Yeo	59,926	43.36

See also

• Marine Parade SMC
• Goh Chok Tong

Reference

• 2011 General Election's result
• 2006 General Election's result
• 2001 General Election's result
• 1997 General Election's result
• 1992 By-Election's result
• 1991 General Election's result
• 1988 General Election's result