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Aljunied Group Representation Constituency
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The Aljunied Group Representation Constituency is a five-member group representation constituency (GRC) in the north-eastern and eastern regions of Singapore. It consists of a large part of the planning area of Hougang, excluding the Single Member Constituency (SMC) of the same name, Paya Lebar, Serangoon Garden, 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, managed by Aljunied–Hougang Town Council. The current Members of Parliament (MPs) for the constituency are Pritam Singh, Sylvia Lim, Gerald Giam, Fadli Fawzi and Kenneth Tiong from the Workers' Party (WP).
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Creation
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]
Entry of Workers' Party
The GRC was uncontested again in 2001;[5] the WP had attempted to nominate a team consisting of 1997 Cheng San GRC candidates Tan Bin Seng, party chair, and Huang Seow Kwang, second vice-chair, as well as newcomers Abdul Rahim Abdul Rahman, James Gomez, and Yaw Shin Leong,[6] however, said team was disqualified for filing incomplete papers. Low later called the disqualification an "oversight" and took responsibility for it.[7] In 2006, the WP successfully nominated a team for the GRC, which lost with 43.91% of the vote to the PAP's 56.09%.[8] 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.[9]
WP victory
In 2011, WP's party leader Low Thia Khiang, who had left his seat at Hougang SMC, led the WP team to contest Aljunied GRC against the incumbent PAP team led by George Yeo and Lim Hwee Hua. They won the first GRC for the opposition since the creation of GRCs in 1988, with 54.72% of the vote against the PAP's 45.28%.[10][11] Yeo and Lim were the first two cabinet ministers since Singaporean independence, as well as the 1963 election, to be defeated for reelection and thus lose their parliamentary seats to the opposition.[12][13] As a result, both lost their Cabinet positions as well.
In 2015, a PAP team led by Yeo Guat Kwang, former MP for Ang Mo Kio GRC, who was formerly a MP for Aljunied GRC from 2001 to 2015, contested the constituency. As part of a national swing towards the PAP, the WP almost lost the division back to the PAP. After the vote count was completed, the PAP team requested a recount as the difference in votes between the two teams was less than two per cent of the total valid votes cast.[14] Following the recount, Aljunied GRC's electoral result was declared last at 3.10am the morning after Election Day with WP ultimately retaining the constituency by a narrow margin of just 1.9%, or a majority of 2,612.[15]
In 2020, Low and Chen Show Mao declined to run for re-election.[16][17] Led by new WP's 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.[18]
Resignation of Leon Perera
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 Perera and Seah had begun 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.[19] After Perera's resignation, the workload for Serangoon was distributed among the other MPs in Aljunied GRC.
2025 general election
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.[20] The PAP again replaced three of its five Aljunied branch chairpersons in February 2025, appointing Faisal Abdul Aziz, Daniel Liu and Adrian Ang to replace Kenny Sim, Shamsul Kamar and Victor Lye.[21]
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 the Tampines West division of Tampines GRC. The number of MPs for the GRC remained at five. This was the first time that an opposition-held constituency had its boundaries redrawn.[22]
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 Tampines GRC.[23] 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.[24]
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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%.
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