Seletar Constituency

Seletar Constituency was a single-member constituency of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Singapore between 1951 and 1959. It covered the Seletar area in North-East Region.

Seletar
Former constituency for the Legislative Council of Singapore and the Legislative Assembly of Singapore
Region	North-East Region, Singapore
Electorate	9,402 (1955)
Former constituency
Created	1951
Abolished	1959
Seats	1
Created from	Rural East Rural West
Replaced by	Jalan Kayu Nee Soon Serangoon Gardens Thomson

In 1951, the constituency was formed from Rural East and Rural West constituencies. The 1952 Seletar by-election remains the only occasion on which a candidate not from the People's Action Party won unopposed.^[1]

In 1955, parts of the constituency were separated to form Bukit Panjang, Sembawang and Serangoon constituencies.^[2][3]

In 1959, the constituency was abolished and split into Jalan Kayu, Nee Soon, Serangoon Gardens and Thomson constituencies.

Member of Parliament

Year	Member of Parliament	Party
Legislative Council of Singapore
1951	Vilasini Menon		Independent
1952	Madai Puthan Damodaran Nair		Independent
Legislative Assembly of Singapore
1955	Madai Puthan Damodaran Nair		Independent

Elections

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%.

Elections in the 1950s

Historical maps

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  1955 General Election