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MacPherson Single Member Constituency
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The MacPherson Single Member Constituency was a single-member constituency (SMC) in central Singapore. At abolition, it was managed by Marine Parade Town Council.
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History
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First existence (1968–1991)
MacPherson Constituency was created for the 1968 general election, with Chua Sian Chin from the governing People's Action Party (PAP) winning unopposed.[1] He would retain the constituency, both unopposed and against different opposition candidates,[2][3][4][5] until the 1991 general election, when it was abolished and merged into Marine Parade Group Representation Constituency (GRC).[6]
In 1988, the constituency was renamed MacPherson Single Member Constituency with the creation of GRCs.[7]
Second existence (1997–2011)
In 1994, Chee Soon Juan, the leader of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), challenged Matthias Yao, the incumbent PAP Member of Parliament (MP) for the MacPherson division of Marine Parade GRC, to an SMC contest amid an antagonistic exchange of letters between the two in The Straits Times regarding Chee's integrity. MacPherson SMC was thus reformed for the 1997 general election.[8]
In the election, Yao won 65.14% of the vote.[9] He would retain the SMC until the 2011 general election, when it was merged again into Marine Parade GRC.[10][11][12]
Third existence (2015–2025)
For the 2015 general election, the National Solidarity Party (NSP), which had contested Marine Parade GRC in 2011, initially planned to field a candidate against the PAP in MacPherson SMC, but decided to pull out of the contest when the Workers' Party (WP) announced its desire to contest in the constituency.[12] The NSP later backtracked and fielded Steve Chia in the constituency, but Chia quit citing online abuse over his participation.[12] As a result, the party fielded Cheo Chai Chen.[12] Hazel Poa, then the acting secretary-general of the NSP, resigned from the party, stating that she opposed the decision of the Central Executive Committee (CEC) to contest the SMC.[13]
During the election campaign, Cheo drew considerable criticism for telling reporters that PAP candidate Tin Pei Ling's status as a new mother was "her weakness" and saying that it was possible that she would spend more time on her child than on her constituents.[14] He later claimed that he was joking.[15] Tin, the incumbent MP for the MacPherson division of Marine Parade GRC, won the election with 65.58% of the vote; Bernard Chen from the WP received 33.6% and Cheo received 0.82%.[16] For not winning at least 12.5% of the vote, Cheo forfeited his election deposit of S$14,500.[17]
During the 2020 general election, Tin retained MacPherson SMC with an improved 71.74% of the vote against Goh Meng Seng, the founder and leader of the People's Power Party (PPP). This was despite a national swing against the PAP.[16]
For the 2025 general election, the SMC was abolished and merged into Marine Parade–Braddell Heights GRC.[18]
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Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
| Formation | |||
| 1968 | Chua Sian Chin | PAP | |
| 1972 | |||
| 1976 | |||
| 1980 | |||
| 1984 | |||
| 1988 | |||
| Constituency abolished (1991 – 1997) | |||
| 1997 | Matthias Yao | PAP | |
| 2001 | |||
| 2006 | |||
| Constituency abolished (2011 – 2015) | |||
| 2015 | Tin Pei Ling | PAP | |
| 2020 | |||
| Constituency abolished (2025) | |||
Electoral results
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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%.
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References
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