Bukit Timah Single Member Constituency

Not to be confused with Bukit Timah Group Representation Constituency.

Bukit Timah Single Member Constituency (SMC) was a single member constituency in Bukit Timah, Singapore. It was formerly known as Bukit Timah Constituency before 1988.

Bukit Timah
Former Single Member constituency for the Parliament of Singapore
Region	Central Region, Singapore
Electorate	24,512 (1991)
Former constituency
Created	1951
Abolished	1997
Seats	1
Created from	Rural West
Replaced by	Bukit Timah GRC

Bukit Timah
Former Single Member constituency for the Parliament of Singapore
Region	Central Region, Singapore
Electorate	26,951 (2001)
Former constituency
Created	2001
Abolished	2006
Seats	1
Created from	Bukit Timah GRC
Replaced by	Holland–Bukit Timah GRC

History

In 1951, Rural West Constituency was broken up into Bukit Timah constituency and Seletar constituency .

In 1955, the constituency was broken up to form various constituencies, Bukit Panjang, Pasir Panjang, Queenstown, Sembawang and Southern Islands SMC. In 1959, it was further broken up to form Jurong SMC.

In 1972, the constituency was broken up to form Bukit Batok SMC, followed by in 1980 distributed to Ayer Rajah SMC, Clementi SMC and West Coast SMC with the growing development of Clementi, and in 1984 to Yuhua SMC and Hong Kah SMC with the growing development of Jurong East.

In 1988, as part of Singapore's electoral reforms, the constituency was renamed as Bukit Timah Single Member Constituency.

In 1997, it was absorbed into Bukit Timah GRC along with Bukit Batok SMC, Jurong SMC, Ulu Pandan SMC and Yuhua SMC.

In 2001, the SMC was recreated as Bukit Timah GRC was broken up to form Holland–Bukit Panjang GRC, Jurong GRC and Bukit Timah SMC. In 2006, the SMC was absorbed into another GRC, Holland–Bukit Timah GRC.

Member of Parliament

Election	Member of Parliament	Party
Legislative Council of Singapore
1951	H. J. C. Kulasingha		PP
Legislative Assembly of Singapore
1955	Lim Chin Siong		PAP
1959	Ya'acob bin Mohamed
1963	Lee Tee Tong		BS
1966	Chor Yeok Eng		PAP
Parliament of Singapore
1968	Chor Yeok Eng		PAP
1972
1976
1980
1984	Wang Kai Yuen
1988
1991
Constituency abolished (1997 – 2001)
2001	Wang Kai Yuen		PAP

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 1951: Bukit Timah^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PP	H. J. C. Kulasingha	1,311	57.15
	Labour Party	Valiya Purayil Abdullah	983	42.85
Rejected ballots			32	1.38
Majority			428	14.3
Registered electors			3,850
Turnout			2,326	60.42
	PP win (new seat)

General Election 1955: Bukit Timah^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Lim Chin Siong	3,259	52.45	N/A
	DP	Tan Wah Meng	1,308	21.05	N/A
	LF	A. N. Mitra	924	14.88	N/A
	PP	S. F. Ho	722	11.62	N/A
Rejected ballots			59	0.94	0.44
Majority			1,951	31.4	14.3
Registered electors			9,173		138.26
Turnout			6,272	68.4	8.00
	PAP gain from PP

General Election 1959: Bukit Timah^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Ya'acob bin Mohamed	6,174	61.14	N/A
	LSP	Pek Cheng Chuan	2,460	24.36	N/A
	Independent	Lee Yew Seng	1,464	14.50	N/A
Rejected ballots			92	0.9	0.04
Majority			3,714	36.78	5.38
Registered electors			11,285		23.02
Turnout			10,190	90.3	21.9
	PAP hold		Swing	8.69

Elections in 1960s

General Election 1963: Bukit Timah^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BS	Lee Tee Tong	6,173	52.39	N/A
	PAP	Chor Yeok Eng	4,982	42.28	18.86
	UPP	Ong Tiong Kuan	628	5.33	N/A
Rejected ballots			152	1.27	0.37
Majority			1,191	10.11	26.66
Registered electors			12,502		10.78
Turnout			11,935	95.46	5.16
	BS gain from PAP		Swing	N/A

By Election 1966: Bukit Timah^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Chor Yeok Eng	Unopposed
Registered electors			14,854		18.81
	PAP gain from BS

General Election 1968: Bukit Timah^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Chor Yeok Eng	Unopposed
Registered electors			16,769		12.89
	PAP hold

Elections in 1970s

General Election 1972: Bukit Timah^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Chor Yeok Eng	9,475	66.78	N/A
	BS	K. K. Nair	4,714	33.22	N/A
Rejected ballots			409	2.8	N/A
Majority			4,761	33.56	N/A
Registered electors			15,476		7.71
Turnout			14,598	94.3	N/A
	PAP hold

General Election 1976: Bukit Timah^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Chor Yeok Eng	Unopposed
Registered electors			13,132		15.15
	PAP hold

Elections in 1980s

General Election 1980: Bukit Timah^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Chor Yeok Eng	Unopposed
Registered electors			15,334		16.77
	PAP hold

General Election 1984: Bukit Timah^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Wang Kai Yuen	Unopposed
Registered electors			17,238		12.42
	PAP hold

General Election 1988: Bukit Timah^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Wang Kai Yuen	Unopposed
Registered electors			20,222		17.31
	PAP hold

Elections in 1990s

General Election 1991: Bukit Timah^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Wang Kai Yuen	16,080	72.64	N/A
	WP	Zeng Guo Yuan	5,683	25.68	N/A
	Independent	Md Sani Jan	371	1.68	N/A
Rejected ballots			561	2.47	N/A
Majority			10,397	46.96	N/A
Registered electors			24,512		21.21
Turnout			22,695	92.59	N/A
	PAP hold

Elections in 2000s

General Election 2001: Bukit Timah^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PAP	Wang Kai Yuen	19,121	77.37
	SDA	Tong Meng Chye	4,376	17.71
	Independent	Tan Kim Chuang	1,215	4.92
Rejected ballots			503	2.03
Majority			14,745	59.66
Registered electors			26,951
Turnout			24,712	91.69
	PAP win (new seat)

Historical maps

• 
  1955 General Election

See also

• Bukit Timah GRC