Aljunied Group Representation Constituency

Not to be confused with the earlier Aljunied Single Member Constituency.

Aljunied
Group Representation constituency for the Parliament of Singapore
Region	North-East and East Regions, Singapore
Electorate	151,007
Current constituency
Created	1988; 36 years ago (1988)
Seats	5
Party	Workers' Party
Member(s)	Gerald Giam Pritam Singh Faisal Manap Sylvia Lim
Town Council	Aljunied–Hougang
Created from	Aljunied SMC Kampong Kembangan SMC Kampong Ubi SMC Eunos SMC Kaki Bukit SMC Paya Lebar SMC Cheng San GRC Eunos GRC Marine Parade GRC

The Aljunied Group Representation Constituency is a five-member group representation constituency (GRC) in the north-eastern and eastern region of Singapore. It consists of a large part of Hougang (excluding Hougang SMC), Paya Lebar, Serangoon Gardens, the southern half of Serangoon North as well as a portion of Bedok and a very small section of Tampines managed by the Aljuined-Hougang Town Council. The GRC consists of five divisions: Eunos, Bedok Reservoir-Punggol, Kaki Bukit, Serangoon and Paya Lebar. The current members of parliament are Gerald Giam, Pritam Singh, Muhamad Faisal Manap and Sylvia Lim from the Worker's Party (WP) after the resignation of Leon Perera.

History

Aljunied GRC was formed in 1988 and was won by the People's Action Party (PAP). The WP team, led by WP leader Low Thia Khiang left his stronghold at Hougang SMC, made a historic breakthrough when the WP team won the election for the GRC with 54.72% of the votes during the 2011 general election, making it the first GRC to be won by the opposition since the introduction of the GRC in 1988.^[1] In the following general election in 2015, WP managed to retain the GRC with 50.96% of the votes.^[2] Between 2011 and 2020, Aljunied GRC was led by Low.

In the 2020 general election, Low and Chen Show Mao declined to run for re-election;^[3][4] the 2020 election saw the WP team, led by WP leader Pritam Singh, retained the GRC with 59.95% of the vote, a 9% swing from the previous election.^[2]

In July 2023, a video surfaced that allegedly showed Perera holding hands intimately with fellow WP member Nicole Seah. On 19 July, WP secretary-general Pritam 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 as a Member of Parliament and as a Member of the WP on 19 July 2023 and Seah resigned from the party on 18 July 2023.^[5]

After Perera's resignation, the workload for the Serangoon division was distributed among the other MPs in Aljunied GRC.

In 2024, PAP appointed Jagathishwaran Rajo and Kenny Sim to replace Chua Eng Leong and Alex Yeo respectively as chair of Eunos ward and Paya Lebar ward.^[6]

Members of Parliament

Election	Division	Incumbent	Party
1998	Aljunied Kampong Kembangan Kampong Ubi	Chin Harn Tong George Yeo Wan Hussin B H Zoohri		PAP
1991	Aljunied Kampong Kembangan Kampong Ubi Paya Lebar	Chin Harn Tong George Yeo Mohamad Maidin bin Packer Mohd Ker Sin Tze
1997	Aljunied Changi-Simei Eunos Kampong Kembangan Paya Lebar	Toh See Kiat David Lim Tik En Sidek Saniff George Yeo Ker Sin Tze
2001	Aljunied-Kembangan Eunos Aljunied-Hougang Bedok Reservoir—Punggol Paya Lebar	Ong Seh Hong Zainul Abidin Yeo Guat Kwang George Yeo Cynthia Phua
2006	Serangoon Eunos Aljunied-Hougang Bedok Reservoir—Punggol Paya Lebar	Lim Hwee Hua Zainul Abidin Yeo Guat Kwang George Yeo Cynthia Phua
2011	Bedok Reservoir-Punggol Eunos Kaki Bukit Paya Lebar Serangoon	Low Thia Khiang Pritam Singh Faisal Manap Chen Show Mao Sylvia Lim		WP
2015
2020[7]		Gerald Giam Pritam Singh Faisal Manap Sylvia Lim Leon Perera (2020-2023)*

Electoral results

Elections in 1980s

General Election 1988: Aljunied GRC^[8]

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
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: Aljunied GRC^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Chin Harn Tong George Yeo Mohamad Maidin bin Packer Ker Sin Tze	Unopposed
Registered electors			94,490
	PAP hold

General Election 1997: Aljunied GRC^[10]

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			15,890	12.18	N/A
Rejected ballots			2,971	3.00	N/A
Turnout			98,915	95.60	N/A
Registered electors			103,466
	PAP hold

Elections in 2000s

General Election 2001: Aljunied GRC^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Ong Seh Hong Yeo Guat Kwang George Yeo Zainul Abidin bin Mohammed Rasheed Cynthia Phua	Unopposed
Registered electors			125,115
	PAP hold

General Election 2006: Aljunied GRC^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Yeo Guat Kwang George Yeo Zainul Abidin bin Mohammed Rasheed Cynthia Phua Lim Hwee Hua	74,843	56.09	N/A
	WP	Goh Meng Seng Sylvia Lim James Gomez Tan Wui-Hua Mohammed Rahizan Bin Yaacob	58,593	43.91	N/A
Majority			16,250	12.18	N/A
Rejected ballots			2,381	1.75	N/A
Turnout			135,817	93.58
Registered electors			145,141
	PAP hold

Elections in 2010s

General Election 2011: Aljunied GRC^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	WP	Low Thia Khiang Sylvia Lim Chen Show Mao Pritam Singh Muhamad Faisal bin Abdul Manap	72,289	54.72	10.81
	PAP	George Yeo Lim Hwee Hua Zainul Abidin bin Mohammed Rasheed Cynthia Phua Ong Ye Kung	59,829	45.28	10.81
Majority			12,460	9.44	2.74
Rejected ballots			1,788	1.34	0.41
Turnout			133,906	93.54	0.04
Registered electors			143,148
	WP gain from PAP		Swing	10.81

General Election 2015: Aljunied GRC^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	WP	Low Thia Khiang Pritam Singh Sylvia Lim Muhamad Faisal Manap Chen Show Mao	70,050	50.96	3.76
	PAP	Yeo Guat Kwang Victor Lye Chua Eng Leong Shamsul Kamar Murali Pillai	67,424	49.04	3.76
Majority			2,626	1.92	7.52
Rejected ballots			1,638	1.18	0.16
Turnout			139,112	93.90	0.36
Registered electors			148,142
	WP hold		Swing	3.76

Elections in 2020s

General Election 2020: Aljunied GRC^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	WP	Gerald Giam Pritam Singh Muhamad Faisal Manap Sylvia Lim Leon Perera	85,815	59.95	8.99
	PAP	Victor Lye Alex Yeo Chan Hui Yuh Chua Eng Leong Shamsul Kamar	57,330	40.05	8.99
Majority			28,485	19.90	17.98
Rejected ballots			1,582	1.09	0.09
Turnout			144,727	95.96	2.06
Registered electors			150,821
	WP hold		Swing	8.99

See also

• Aljunied SMC

References

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