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Anson Constituency
Singaporean electoral district (1959–1988) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anson Constituency was a constituency in Singapore. It used to exist from 1959 to 1988 and was merged into Tiong Bahru Group Representation Constituency in 1988.
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In 1981, incumbent MP Devan Nair resigned from the PAP and the Parliament to accept the then largely ceremonial office of President as the country's head of state.[1] This resulted in the third time Anson had a by-election. Nominations for the by-election started on 21 October. Three candidates were nominated for the by-election: PAP had Pang Kim Hin, the nephew of former minister Lim Kim San; Workers' Party (WP) secretary-general J.B. Jeyaretnam; and United People's Front Harbans Singh. Chiam See Tong, who recently founded Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) a year prior to the by-election, expressed interest but withdrew later and backed Jeyaretnam.
The by-election was eventually won by Jeyaretnam of WP, the first time in Singapore since 1963 when a party candidate not from the PAP had won a parliamentary seat.[2]
In 1988, the constituency was dissolved following the establishment of Group representation constituency (GRC) and Single Member Constituency (SMC).[3]
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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%.
Elections in the 1950s
Elections in the 1960s
Elections in the 1970s
Elections in the 1980s
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