Toa Payoh Group Representation Constituency

The Toa Payoh Group Representation Constituency was a group representation constituency (GRC) in central Singapore.

Toa Payoh
Group Representation constituency for the Parliament of Singapore
Region	Singapore
Current constituency
Created	1988
Seats	4
Member	Constituency Abolished
Replaced by	Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC

History

Kim Keat Single Member Constituency was absorbed in the 1991 elections. In 1997, the ward was merged along with Thomson GRC to form Bishan–Toa Payoh GRC.

Ong would resign in 1993 to contest in the Presidential Election and later become the 5th President of Singapore. After S. Dhanabalan retired from his cabinet position in 1994, it was one of the group representation constituencies without an anchor minister.^[1]

Members of Parliament

Year	Division	Members of Parliament	Party
Formation
1988	Kuo Chuan Boon Teck Toa Payoh	Wong Kan Seng Ho Tat Kin Davinder Singh		PAP
1991	Kuo Chuan Boon Teck Toa Payoh Kim Keat	S. Dhanabalan Ho Tat Kin Davinder Singh Ong Teng Cheong (1991–1993)[a]
Constituency abolished (1997)

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 1980s

General Election 1988^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PAP	Wong Kan Seng Ho Tat Kin Davinder Singh	Unopposed
Registered electors			49,243
	PAP win (new seat)

Elections in 1990s

General Election 1991^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	S. Dhanabalan Ho Tat Kin Davinder Singh Ong Teng Cheong	Unopposed
Registered electors			63,591		29.14
	PAP hold

Notes

1. Resigned in August 1993 to contest the presidential election in the same year.