Aljunied Group Representation Constituency

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Not to be confused with the earlier pre-GRC Aljunied Constituency.

Aljunied
Group Representation constituency
for the
Workers' Party
Member(s)Pritam Singh
Sylvia Lim
Gerald Giam
Fadli Fawzi
Kenneth Tiong
Town CouncilAljunied–Hougang
Created from

The Aljunied Group Representation Constituency is a five-member

Serangoon Gardens, the southern half of Serangoon North as well as a portion of Bedok. The GRC consists of five divisions: Eunos, Bedok Reservoir-Punggol, Kaki Bukit, Serangoon and Paya Lebar. The current Members of Parliament are Pritam Singh, Sylvia Lim, Gerald Giam, Fadli Fawzi and Kenneth Tiong from the Workers' Party
(WP).

History

Creation

Aljunied GRC was formed in 1988 and was won by the People's Action Party (PAP) against the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) with 56.33% of the votes to 43.67%. It was uncontested in 1991, and was contested again in 1997 by the SDP with a much poorer result as compared to 1988, garnering only 32.98% of the votes against 67.02% from the PAP.

2001 and 2006 general elections

It was uncontested once more in 2001 as the

Cheng San GRC in 1997), and new members Abdul Rahim Abdul Rahman, James Gomez and Yaw Shin Leong)[1] was disqualified for filing incomplete papers, Low cited that their disqualification was an "oversight" and later took responsibility for it.[2] In 2006, the Workers' Party
(WP) began contesting in the area, garnering 43.91% of the votes to the PAP's 56.09%.

Opposition breakthrough

In 2011, party leader

Hougang SMC, led a WP team to contest in Aljunied GRC. They made a historic breakthrough when the WP team won the election for the GRC with 54.72% of the votes to the PAP's 45.28%, making it the first GRC to be won by an opposition party since the introduction of the GRC system in 1988.[3]

In 2015, a PAP team led by

SG50 and only a few months after the death of Lee Kuan Yew, the WP almost lost the division back to the PAP. During the vote counting, a recount was requested by the PAP team as the difference in votes between the two teams was less than two per cent of the total valid votes cast.[4] Following the recount, Aljunied GRC's electoral result was declared last at 3.10am the following morning with WP ultimately retaining the constituency by a narrow margin of just 1.9%, or a majority of 2,612.[5]

In 2020, Low and Chen Show Mao declined to run for re-election.[6][7] Led by WP's new party leader Pritam Singh, WP retained the GRC with 59.95% of the vote, a 9% swing in their favour from the previous election.[8]

MP resignation

In July 2023, a video surfaced that allegedly showed the MP for the Serangoon ward Leon Perera holding hands intimately with fellow WP member Nicole Seah. On 19 July, WP secretary-general Singh revealed that Perera and Seah began an affair some time after the 2020 general elections, 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.[9] After Perera's resignation, the workload for Serangoon was distributed among the other MPs in Aljunied GRC.

In August 2024, the PAP appointed Jagathishwaran Rajo and Kenny Sim to replace Chua Eng Leong and Alex Yeo respectively as the chairs of the Eunos and Paya Lebar PAP branches.[10] The PAP again replaced three of its five Aljunied branch chairpersons in February 2025 and appointed Faisal Abdul Aziz, Daniel Liu and Adrian Ang to replaced outgoing branch chairpersons Kenny Sim, Shamsul Kamar and Victor Lye.[11]

On 11 March 2025, the Elections Department updated the electoral divisions for the 2025 Singaporean general election. Some polling districts to the east of Bedok Reservoir were absorbed by Tampines West ward of Tampines GRC. The number of MPs that the GRC elects remained at five. This was the first time that a non-PAP and opposition-held constituency had its boundaries redrawn, albeit slightly.[12] Despite a national swing towards the PAP, the WP ended up retaining the GRC with a similar vote share to that of 2020.[13]

2025 General Election

Prior to the

Marine Parade GRC and new face Kenneth Tiong would be contesting the GRC alongside the incumbent MPs, Pritam Singh, Sylvia Lim and Gerald Giam
. Despite a national swing towards the PAP, the WP ended up retaining the GRC with 59.71% of the vote.

Members of Parliament

Election Division Members of Parliament Party
Formation
1988
  • Aljunied
  • Kampong Kembangan
  • Kampong Ubi
 PAP
1991
  • Aljunied
  • Kampong Kembangan
  • Kampong Ubi
  • Paya Lebar
1997
  • Aljunied
  • Changi-Simei
  • Eunos
  • Kampong Kembangan
  • Paya Lebar
2001
  • Aljunied-Kembangan
  • Eunos
  • Aljunied-Hougang
  • Kembangan—Punggol
  • Paya Lebar
2006
  • Serangoon
  • Eunos
  • Aljunied-Hougang
  • Bedok Reservoir—Punggol
  • Paya Lebar
2011
  • Bedok Reservoir-Punggol
  • Eunos
  • Kaki Bukit
  • Paya Lebar
  • Serangoon
WP
2015
2020
2025

Electoral results

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

General Election 1988[14][15]
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

General Election 1991[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PAP Chin Harn Tong
George Yeo
Mohamad Maidin bin Packer
Ker Sin Tze 		Unopposed
Registered electors 94,490 Increase44.59
PAP hold
General Election 1997[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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 Increase9.50
PAP hold

Elections in 2000s

General Election 2001[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PAP Ong Seh Hong
Yeo Guat Kwang
George Yeo
Zainul Abidin
Cynthia Phua 		Unopposed
Registered electors 125,115 Increase20.92
PAP hold
General Election 2006[19][20]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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 Increase16.00
PAP hold

Elections in 2010s

General Election 2011[21]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
WP
 		Low Thia Khiang
Sylvia Lim
Faisal Manap
Chen Show Mao
Pritam Singh 		72,289 54.72 Increase10.81
PAP George Yeo
Lim Hwee Hua
Zainul Abidin
Cynthia Phua
Ong Ye Kung 		59,829 45.28 Decrease10.81
Majority 12,460 9.44 Decrease2.74
Total valid votes 132,118 98.66 Increase0.41
Rejected ballots 1,788 1.34 Positive decrease0.41
Turnout 133,906 93.54 Decrease0.04
Registered electors 143,148 Decrease1.37
WP gain from PAP
 Swing Increase10.81
General Election 2015[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
WP
 		Low Thia Khiang
Sylvia Lim
Faisal Manap
Chen Show Mao
Pritam Singh 		70,050 50.96 Decrease3.76
PAP Yeo Guat Kwang
Victor Lye
Chua Eng Leong
Shamsul Kamar
Murali Pillai 		67,424 49.04 Increase3.76
Majority 2,626 1.92 Decrease7.52
Total valid votes 137,474 98.82 Increase0.16
Rejected ballots 1,638 1.18 Positive decrease0.16
Turnout 139,112 93.90 Increase0.36
Registered electors 148,142 Increase3.48
WP
hold 		Swing Decrease3.76

Elections in 2020s

General Election 2020[23]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
WP
 		Pritam Singh
Sylvia Lim
Faisal Manap
Gerald Giam
Leon Perera 		85,815 59.95 Increase8.99
PAP Victor Lye
Alex Yeo
Chan Hui Yuh
Chua Eng Leong
Shamsul Kamar 		57,330 40.05 Decrease8.99
Majority 28,485 19.90 Increase17.98
Total valid votes 143,145 98.91 Increase0.09
Rejected ballots 1,582 1.09 Decrease0.09
Turnout 144,727 95.96 Increase2.06
Registered electors 150,821 Increase1.81
WP
hold 		Swing Increase8.99
General Election 2025[24]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
WP
 		Pritam Singh
Sylvia Lim
Gerald Giam
Fadli Fawzi
Kenneth Tiong 		79,254 59.71 Decrease0.24
PAP Chan Hui Yuh
Adrian Ang
Daniel Liu
Faisal Abdul Aziz
Jagathiswaran Rajo 		53,471 40.29 Increase0.24
Majority 25,783 19.42 Decrease0.48
Total valid votes 132,725 99.00 Increase0.09
Rejected ballots 1,342 1.00 Decrease0.09
Turnout 134,067 92.91 Decrease3.05
Registered electors 144,298 Decrease4.32
WP
hold 		Swing Decrease0.24

See also

  • Aljunied SMC

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