Aljunied Group Representation Constituency

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

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. 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).

Aljunied
Group Representation constituency for the Parliament of Singapore
Region	North-East and East Regions, Singapore
Electorate	144,032
Current constituency
Created	1988; 37 years ago (1988)
Seats	5
Party	Workers' Party
Member(s)	Pritam Singh Sylvia Lim Gerald Giam Fadli Fawzi Kenneth Tiong
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

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. It was uncontested once more in 2001. 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 Low Thia Khiang, who had left his seat at 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.^[1]

In 2015, a PAP team led by Yeo Guat Kwang contested the constituency. As part of a national swing towards the PAP due to 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.^[2] 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.^[3]

In 2020, Low and Chen Show Mao declined to run for re-election.^[4][5] 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.^[6]

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.^[7] 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.^[8] 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.^[9]

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.^[10] Despite a national swing towards the PAP, the WP ended up retaining the GRC with a similar vote share to that of 2020.^[11]

2025 General Election

Prior to the 2025 general election, the WP also announced 2 new candidates that Fadli Fawzi, once contested in 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	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 Kembangan—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		Gerald Giam Pritam Singh Faisal Manap Sylvia Lim Leon Perera (2020-2023)*
2025		Gerald Giam Pritam Singh Fadli Fawzi Sylvia Lim Kenneth Tiong

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^[12][13]

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^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Chin Harn Tong George Yeo Mohamad Maidin bin Packer Ker Sin Tze	Unopposed
Registered electors			94,490		44.59
	PAP hold

General Election 1997^[15]

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		9.50
	PAP hold

Elections in 2000s

General Election 2001^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Ong Seh Hong Yeo Guat Kwang George Yeo Zainul Abidin Cynthia Phua	Unopposed
Registered electors			125,115		20.92
	PAP hold

General Election 2006^[17][18]

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		16.00
	PAP hold

Elections in 2010s

General Election 2011^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	WP	Low Thia Khiang Pritam Singh Sylvia Lim Faisal Manap Chen Show Mao	72,289	54.72	10.81
	PAP	George Yeo Lim Hwee Hua Zainul Abidin Cynthia Phua Ong Ye Kung	59,829	45.28	10.81
Majority			12,460	9.44	2.74
Total valid votes			132,118	98.66	0.41
Rejected ballots			1,788	1.34	0.41
Turnout			133,906	93.54	0.04
Registered electors			143,148		1.37
	WP gain from PAP		Swing	10.81

General Election 2015^[20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	WP	Low Thia Khiang Pritam Singh Sylvia Lim 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
Total valid votes			137,474	98.82	0.16
Rejected ballots			1,638	1.18	0.16
Turnout			139,112	93.90	0.36
Registered electors			148,142		3.48
	WP hold		Swing	3.76

Elections in 2020s

General Election 2020^[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	WP	Pritam Singh Sylvia Lim Faisal Manap Gerald Giam 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
Total valid votes			143,145	98.91	0.09
Rejected ballots			1,582	1.09	0.09
Turnout			144,727	95.96	2.06
Registered electors			150,821		1.81
	WP hold		Swing	8.99

General Election 2025^[22]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	WP	Pritam Singh Sylvia Lim Gerald Giam Fadli Fawzi Kenneth Tiong	79,254	59.71	0.24
	PAP	Chan Hui Yuh Adrian Ang Daniel Liu Faisal Abdul Aziz Jagathiswaran Rajo	53,471	40.29	0.24
Majority			25,783	19.42	0.48
Total valid votes			132,725	99.00	0.09
Rejected ballots			1,342	1.00	0.09
Turnout			134,067	92.91	3.05
Registered electors			144,298		4.32
	WP hold		Swing	0.24

See also

• Aljunied SMC