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Bukit Gombak Single Member Constituency
Singaporean electoral district From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bukit Gombak Single Member Constituency[a] is a single member constituency (SMC) in the western area in Singapore. The seat consists of the area surrounding Bukit Gombak MRT station and a few private housing estates such as the Hillview area. It was first formed in 1988 from parts of Bukit Batok SMC and was reinstated in 2025 after being separated from Chua Chu Kang GRC. The current Members of Parliament is Low Yen Ling from the People's Action Party (PAP).
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The SMC was first formed in 1988 with PAP candidate Seet Ai Mee and Singapore Democratic Party's candidate Ling How Doong contesting it. During the election campaign, Seet washed her hands after shaking hands with a fishmonger while campaigning in a market, which drew negative publicity..
Ling challenged Seet again in the 1991 general election. During an election rally, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, in an attempt to defend Seet in the handwashing incident, said that she had a habit of washing her hands regularly and had not done so out of disrespect. His comments were reported in the media and reignited the incident. Seet eventually lost the contest to Ling with 48.6 percent share of the votes, a drop of almost 5 percent. Goh bringing up the handwashing incident was thought to have contributed to Seet's defeat. In an interview with The Straits Times in 2011, Seet said that she had in fact washed her hands because she had also shaken hands with pork sellers and wanted to clean her hands before meeting Muslim residents. She added that she wished Goh Chok Tong had clarified this with her before making his comments at the election rally.[2]
During the 2001 Singaporean general election, Bukit Gombak SMC was absorbed as a ward into Hong Kah Group Representation Constituency (GRC).
In 2025, the SMC was recreated with the Bukit Gombak and Hillview estates. The recreation is due to population growth in Tengah in Chua Chu Kang GRC and to keep the electorate small enough such that the GRC remains a four-member GRC.[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%.
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