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Sembawang Group Representation Constituency
Electoral division in Singapore From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Sembawang Group Representation Constituency is a five-member Group Representation Constituency (GRC) located in the northern area of Singapore. The GRC has five divisions: Sembawang Central, Naval Base, Woodlands, Admiralty and Canberra, managed by Sembawang Town Council. It also encompasses a section of Singapore's northern territorial waters in the Straits of Johor. The current Members of Parliament (MPs) are Ong Ye Kung, Gabriel Lam, Mariam Jaafar, Ng Shi Xuan and Vikram Nair from the People's Action Party (PAP).
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Creation
From its creation until the 2006 general elections, the GRC was always uncontested. In the 2006 general elections, the Singapore Democratic Party led by Chee Soon Juan's sister Chee Siok Chin contested in the GRC against the PAP team led by Khaw Boon Wan in which the PAP team won with 76.7% against the SDP's 23.3%. In the 2011 general election, the PAP won against the SDP team led by former Workers' Party Aljunied GRC candidate James Gomez with a reduced majority of 63.9%. In the 2015 general elections, although the SDP did not contest in the GRC, the National Solidarity Party contested and the PAP won against the NSP with 72.3% of the vote. Prior to the 2020 general election, Khaw and Lim Wee Kiak retired, Amrin Amin moved to contest in Sengkang GRC unsuccessfully and Ong Ye Kung became the anchor minister for the PAP Sembawang GRC team. The PAP team proceded to win with 67.3% of the vote.
2025 general election
For the 2025 general election, the majority of the residential area of Sembawang West ward was carved out of the GRC to form a new Sembawang West Single Member Constituency (SMC) in order to reduce the number of voters in the GRC.[1][2]
In the same year, the National Solidarity Party (NSP) and the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) entered talks hoping to avert a three-cornered fight in the GRC.[3] However, on 12 April, both parties were unable to come to an agreement as NSP rejected SDP's proposal for NSP to instead contest in Holland–Bukit Timah.[4]
Due to the creation of Sembawang West SMC, Poh Li San, left the GRC team to stand for reelection alone.[5] A reconfigured PAP team defeated SDP with 67.75% of the vote to the SDP's 29.93%, while the NSP lost their deposit with 2.32% of the vote.[6]
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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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