Bukit Merah Single Member Constituency

Bukit Merah Single Member Constituency was a constituency in Singapore. It existed from 1959 to 1997, when it was merged with Leng Kee division of the Tanjong Pagar GRC.

Bukit Merah
Former Single Member constituency for the Parliament of Singapore
Region	Singapore
Current constituency
Created	1959
Seats	1
Party	People's Action Party
Member	Ch'ng Jit Koon
Town Council	Tanjong Pagar
Replaced by	Tanjong Pagar GRC

Member of Parliament

Election	Member of Parliament	Party
1959	Sellappa Ramaswamy		PAP
1963	Lim Huan Boon		BS
1966	Lim Guan Hoo		PAP
1968
1972
1976
1977	Lim Chee Onn
1980
1984
1988
1991	Ch'ng Jit Koon

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 1950s

General Election 1959: Bukit Merah^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PAP	Sellappa Ramaswamy	5,922	59.09
	SPA	Teo Cheng Hye	3,026	30.2
	Independent	Lee Choon Eng	1,073	10.71
Majority			2,896	28.89
Registered electors			11,286
Turnout			10,021	88.79
	PAP win (new seat)

Elections in 1960s

General Election 1963: Bukit Merah^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BS	Lim Huan Boon	4,963	42.84	N/A
	PAP	Sellappa Ramaswamy	4,520	39.02	20.07
	UPP	Poon Weng Ying	1,129	9.75	N/A
	SA	Shums Tung Tao Chang	740	6.39	23.81
	Independent	Ngoh Eng Kok	232	2	N/A
Majority			443	3.82	25.07
Registered electors			12,225		8.32
Turnout			11,584	94.76	5.97
	BS gain from PAP		Swing	42.84

By-election 18 January 1966: Bukit Merah^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Lim Guan Hoo	9,082	82.94	N/A
	Independent	Madai Puthan Damodaran Nair	1,868	17.06	N/A
Majority			7,214	65.88	62.06
Registered electors			13,489		10.34
Turnout			10,950	81.18	9.8
	PAP gain from BS		Swing	43.92

General Election 1968: Bukit Merah^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Lim Guan Hoo	Unopposed
Registered electors			19,319		43.22
	PAP hold

Elections in 1970s

General Election 1972: Bukit Merah^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Lim Guan Hoo	9,044	69.33	N/A
	WP	Kho Jiak Hong	2,042	15.65	N/A
	BS	Said bin Jali	1,958	15.02	N/A
Majority			7,002	53.68	N/A
Registered electors			13,960		27.74
Turnout			13,044	93.44	N/A
	PAP hold

General Election 1976: Bukit Merah^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Lim Guan Hoo	12,775	76.37	7.04
	UF	Wong Kui Yu	3,952	23.63	N/A
Majority			8,823	52.74	0.94
Registered electors			17,538		25.63
Turnout			16,727	95.38	1.94
	PAP hold		Swing	7.04

By-election, 23 July 1977: Bukit Merah^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Lim Chee Onn	11,625	72.21	N/A
	BS	Lee Siew Choh	4,473	27.79	N/A
Majority			7,152	44.4	8.4
Registered electors			16,937		3.43
Turnout			16,098	95.05	0.1
	PAP hold		Swing	4.16

Elections in 1980s

General Election 1980: Bukit Merah^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Lim Chee Onn	Unopposed
Registered electors			19,046		12.45
	PAP hold

General Election 1984: Bukit Merah^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Lim Chee Onn	Unopposed
Registered electors			19,210		0.86
	PAP hold

General Election 1988: Bukit Merah^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Lim Chee Onn	9,414	69.78	N/A
	WP	Pok Lee Chuen	4,077	30.22	N/A
Rejected ballots			230	1.67	N/A
Majority			5,337	39.56	N/A
Registered electors			14,723		23.36
Turnout			13,721	93.19	N/A
	PAP hold

Elections in 1990s

General Election 1991: Bukit Merah^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Ch'ng Jit Koon	6,878	61.94	N/A
	WP	Gopalan Nair Pallichadath	4,046	36.43	N/A
	Independent	Patrick Leong Siew Choong	181	1.63	N/A
Rejected ballots			193	1.7	0.03
Majority			2,832	25.51	14.05
Registered electors			11,998		18.51
Turnout			11,298	94.16	0.97
	PAP hold		Swing	7.9