Kreta Ayer Single Member Constituency

Kreta Ayer Single Member Constituency was a constituency spanning Chinatown and Raffles Place in Singapore. It used to exist from 1959 to 1988 as Kreta Ayer Constituency and was renamed as Kreta Ayer Single Member Constituency (SMC) as part of Singapore's political reforms. The SMC was merged into Kreta Ayer–Tanglin Group Representation Constituency in 1997.

Kreta Ayer
Single Member constituency for the Parliament of Singapore
Region	Singapore
Current constituency
Created	1959
Seats	1
Member	Constituency Abolished
Town Council	Jalan Besar Tanjong Pagar
Replaced by	Jalan Besar GRC Tanjong Pagar GRC

Member of Parliament

Year	Member of Parliament	Party
Legislative Assembly of Singapore
1959	Goh Keng Swee		PAP
1963
Parliament of Singapore
1968	Goh Keng Swee		PAP
1972
1976
1980
1984	Richard Hu
1988
1991

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: Kreta Ayer

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Goh Keng Swee	9,313	73.35
	LSP	Pang Man Ming	3,384	26.65
Majority			5,929	46.7
Turnout			12,995	91.69
	PAP hold		Swing

References

• 1959 GE's result
• 1963 GE's result
• 1968 GE's result
• 1972 GE's result
• 1976 GE's result
• 1980 GE's result
• 1984 GE's result
• 1988 GE's result
• 1991 GE's result