Jalan Besar Constituency

Not to be confused with Jalan Besar Group Representation Constituency.

Jalan Besar Constituency was a single member constituency within Kallang, Singapore. It existed from 1959 to 1988.

Jalan Besar
Single Member constituency for the Parliament of Singapore
Region	Singapore
Current constituency
Created	1959
Member	Constituency Abolished
Town Council	Jalan Besar
Replaced by	Jalan Besar GRC

Member of Parliament

Election	Member of Parliament	Party
Legislative Assembly of Singapore
1959	Chan Chee Seng		PAP
1961
1963
Parliament of Singapore
1968	Chan Chee Seng		PAP
1972
1976
1980
1984	Lee Boon Yang

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: Jalan Besar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Chan Chee Seng	7,600	62.48
	SPA	Wong Yew Hon	2,573	21.15
	LSP	Lo Ka Fat	1,488	12.23
	LF	See Eng Kiat	503	4.14
Turnout			12,297	88.6
	PAP win (new seat)

Elections in 1960s

General Election 1963: Jalan Besar^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Chan Chee Seng	6,686	51.87	−10.61
	BS	Ng Ngeong Yew	5,172	40.12	+40.12
	UPP	Yong Wan Kit	1,033	8.01	+8.01
Turnout			13,092	95.1	+6.5
	PAP hold		Swing	-10.61

General Election 1968: Jalan Besar^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Chan Chee Seng	Walkover
Turnout			11,400
	PAP hold		Swing

Elections in 1970s

General Election 1972: Jalan Besar^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Chan Chee Seng	7,794	83.86
	United National Front	Johnnie Ng	1,500	16.14
Turnout			9,514	92.3
	PAP hold		Swing

General Election 1976: Jalan Besar^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Chan Chee Seng	Walkover
Turnout			14,933
	PAP hold		Swing

Elections in 1980s

General Election 1980: Jalan Besar^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Chan Chee Seng	Walkover
Turnout			15,058
	PAP hold		Swing

General Election 1984: Jalan Besar^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Lee Boon Yang	9,236	64.43
	WP	Ananthan Balakrishnan	5,100	35.57
Turnout			14,808	91.9
	PAP hold		Swing

See also

• Jalan Besar GRC
• Moulmein–Kallang GRC