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MacPherson Single Member Constituency
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The MacPherson Single Member Constituency was a single member constituency (SMC) located in the central area of Singapore. At abolition, it was managed by Marine Parade Town Council.
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MacPherson Constituency was created for the 1968 general election.
In 1988, the constituency was renamed MacPherson Single Member Constituency with the creation of group representation constituencies (GRCs). MacPherson SMC would exist until 1991, when it was merged to Marine Parade GRC. It was reformed for the 1997 general election, with Matthias Yao, the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for the MacPherson division in Marine Parade GRC, winning 65.14% of the vote for the governing People's Action Party (PAP).[1] In 2011, it was merged back to Marine Parade GRC as a division and reformed for the 2015 general election after one term in the GRC.
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.[2] The NSP later backtracked and fielded Steve Chia in the constituency, but Chia would quit citing online abuse over his participation.[2] As a result, the party fielded Cheo Chai Chen for the contest.[2] Hazel Poa, then the acting secretary-general of the NSP, resigned from the party, stating her disagreement with the decision of the Central Executive Committee (CEC) to contest the SMC.[3]
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 she might spend more time focusing on her child than on her constituents.[4] He later claimed that he was joking.[5] Tin, the incumbent MP for the MacPherson division in Marine Parade GRC, won the election with 65.6% of the vote, Bernard Chen from the WP took 33.6% and Cheo took just 0.8%.[6] Cheo would forfeit his $14,500 election deposit for not winning at least 12.5% of the vote.
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).[7] This was despite a national swing against the PAP.[8]
For the 2025 general election, the SMC was abolished and merged into Marine Parade–Braddell Heights GRC.[9]
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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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