River Valley Constituency

River Valley Constituency was a constituency in Singapore. It used to exist from 1959 to 1988. The 1959 election in River Valley remains the record for the closest winning margin in any election in Singapore history.

History

In 1988, the constituency was dissolved following the establishment of Group representation constituency (GRC) and Single Member Constituency (SMC).^[1]

Member of Parliament

Election	Member	Party
Formation
Legislative Assembly of Singapore
1959	Lim Cheng Lock		PAP
1963
Parliament of Singapore
1968	Low Guan Onn		PAP
1972	Tan Eng Liang
1976
1980	Tay Eng Soon
1984
Constituency abolished (1988)

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: River Valley^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PAP	Lim Cheng Lock	3,430	36.6
	SPA	Soh Ghee Soon	3,425	36.5
	LSP	Tan Ek Khoo	2,529	27.0
Majority			5	0.1
Turnout			9,534	90.0
	PAP win (new seat)

Elections in 1960s

General Election 1963: River Valley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Lim Cheng Lock	5,597	56.7	+20.1
	BS	Goh Lam San	2,668	27.0
	SA	Yap Pheng Geck	1,156	11.7	−24.8
	UPP	Wong Chung Kit	455	4.6
Majority			2,929	29.7
Turnout			9,980	94.8
	PAP hold		Swing