Havelock Constituency

Havelock Constituency was a constituency in Singapore. It used to exist from 1955 to 1984.

Havelock
Former Single Member constituency for the Parliament of Singapore
Region	Havelock
Former constituency
Created	1955
Abolished	1984
Seats	1
Member(s)	constituency abolished

History

In 1963, Loh Miaw Gong was elected as assemblyman for the Legislative Assembly of Singapore.^[1] However she was arrested under the Internal Security Act before she can assume her seat.^[1]

In 1967, Loh resigned her seat, along with four other Barisan Sosialis MP.^[2] A by-election was called in 1967 to fill in the seat.

In 1984, Havelock was merged with nearby constituencies, Telok Ayer and Kreta Ayer Constituencies.^[3]

Member of Parliament

Election	Member of Parliament	Party
Legislative Assembly of Singapore
1955	Lim Yew Hock		LF
1959	Peter Lau Por Tuck		PAP
1963	Loh Miaw Gong		BS
Parliament of Singapore
1963	Loh Miaw Gong (resigned in 1967)		BS
1967	Lim Soo Peng		PAP
1968
1970	Hon Sui Sen
1972
1976
1980

Elections

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 1950s

General Election 1955: Havelock^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LF	Lim Yew Hock	5,744	86.5	N/A
	Independent	Soh C.S.	525	7.9	N/A
	PP	Chua Bock Kwee	373	5.6	N/A
Majority			5,219	78.6	N/A
Registered electors			12,835		N/A
Total valid votes			6,642	51.7	N/A
Rejected ballots
Turnout
	LF win (new seat)

General Election 1959: Havelock^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Peter Lau Por Tuck	9,227	63.6	N/A
	Independent	Ng See Thong	3,562	24.6	N/A
	SPA	Tan Theng Chiang	963	6.6	N/A
	MCA	Loke Kwok Sang	433	3.0	N/A
	LSP	Tan Ah Pak	323	2.2	N/A
Majority			5,665	39.0	39.6
Registered electors			15,919		24.0
Total valid votes			14,508	91.1	39.4
Rejected ballots
Turnout
	PAP gain from SPA		Swing	N/A

Elections in 1960s

General Election 1963: Havelock^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BS	Loh Miaw Gong	6,304	44.1	N/A
	PAP	Wong Chun Choi	4,157	29.0	34.6
	UPP	Ng Chee Sen	3,209	22.4	N/A
	SA	Lim Ser Puan	641	4.5	N/A
Majority			2,147	15.1	23.9
Registered electors			15,159		4.8
Total valid votes			14,311	94.4	1.4
Rejected ballots
Turnout
	BS gain from PAP		Swing	N/A

Historical maps

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  1955 General Election