Brickworks Constituency

Brickworks Constituency was a constituency in Singapore. It used to exist from 1976 to 1988. It merged part of Leng Kee and Pasir Panjang.

Brickworks
Former Single Member constituency for the Parliament of Singapore
Region	Singapore
Former constituency
Created	1976
Abolished	1988
Seats	1
Member	Constituency Abolished
Replaced by	Brickworks GRC

History

In 1988, the constituency was merged into Brickworks GRC following the establishment of Group representation constituency (GRC) and Single Member Constituency (SMC).^[1]

Member of Parliament

Election	Member	Party
Formation
1976	Ahmad Mattar		PAP
1980
1984
Constituency abolished (1988)

Electoral results

Note: The Elections Department does not include rejected votes when calculating the vote shares of candidates. Hence, all candidates' vote shares will total to 100% at any given election (may not appear so in multi-way contests due to rounding).

Elections in 1970s

General Election 1976^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PAP	Ahmad Mattar	9,871	73.99
	United Front	Tung Tao-Chang alias Shums	3,470	26.01
Majority			6,401	47.98
Registered electors			14,062
Turnout			13,341	94.87
	PAP win (new seat)

Elections in 1980s

General Election 1980^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Ahmad Mattar	Unopposed
Registered electors			13,054		7.17
	PAP hold

General Election 1984^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Ahmad Mattar	8,389	66.27	N/A
	WP	Mohd Taib B Saffar	4,270	33.73	N/A
Majority			4,119	32.54	N/A
Registered electors			13,571		3.96
Turnout			12,659	93.28	N/A
	PAP hold		Swing	N/A