Whampoa Single Member Constituency

Whampoa Single Member Constituency was a single-member constituency (SMC) in central Singapore. At abolition, it was managed by Moulmein–Kallang Town Council.

Whampoa
Former single-member constituency for the Parliament of Singapore
Region	Central Region, Singapore
Electorate	22,069
Former constituency
Created	1968
Abolished	2015
Seats	1
Member	Constituency abolished
Town Council	Moulmein–Kallang
Merged	1991, 2015
Merged to	Kampong Glam GRC Jalan Besar GRC Toa Payoh GRC
Reformed	2011
Reformed from	Jalan Besar GRC

History

In 1968, Whampoa Constituency was formed by carving out of Kallang Constituency. In 1988, it was renamed as Whampoa Single Member Constituency as part of Singapore's political reforms. It existed for another term until 1991 when it was abolished and divided into Kampong Glam, Jalan Besar and Toa Payoh Group Representation Constituencies.

In 2011, Whampoa Single Member Constituency was recreated by carving out from Jalan Besar Group Representation Constituency (GRC) as Jalan Besar GRC was dissolved and was replaced by Moulmein–Kallang and Tanjong Pagar GRCs respectively.^[1][2] Heng Chee How contested as a solo PAP candidate in the newly formed Whampoa SMC and won with 66.1% of the vote against the National Solidarity Party's Ken Sun. This was despite a national swing against the PAP.^[3] It was later merged back to the revived Jalan Besar GRC again in the 2015 Singaporean general election.^[4]

Member of Parliament

Year	Member	Party
Formation
1968	Buang bin Omar Junid		PAP
1972	Augustine Tan Hui Heng
1976
1980
1984
1988
Constituency abolished (1991– 2011)
2011	Heng Chee How		PAP
Constituency abolished (2015)

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 1960s

General Election 1968: Whampoa^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PAP	Buang bin Omar Junid	Unopposed
Registered electors			12,854
	PAP win (new seat)

Elections in 1970s

General Election 1972: Whampoa^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Augustine Tan Hui Heng	8,773	78.55	N/A
	PF	Phang Juet Haw	2,395	21.45	N/A
Majority			6,378	57.1	N/A
Registered electors			12,044		0.06
Turnout			11,401	94.66	N/A
	PAP hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1976: Whampoa^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Augustine Tan Hui Heng	14,636	80.98	2.43
	WP	Mohamed Shariff bin Yahya	3,438	19.02	N/A
Majority			11,198	61.96	4.86
Registered electors			19,259		59.9
Turnout			18,468	95.89	1.2
	PAP hold		Swing	2.43

Elections in 1980s

General Election 1980: Whampoa^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Augustine Tan Hui Heng	Unopposed
Registered electors			19,131		0.66
	PAP hold

General Election 1984: Whampoa^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Augustine Tan Hui Heng	Unopposed
Registered electors			18,494		3.33
	PAP hold

General Election 1988: Whampoa^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Augustine Tan Hui Heng	7,522	59.47	N/A
	NSP	Ken Sun	5,126	40.53	N/A
Majority			2,396	18.94	N/A
Registered electors			13,819		25.28
Turnout			12,841	92.92	N/A
	PAP hold

Elections in 2010s

General Election 2011: Whampoa^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PAP	Heng Chee How	13,028	66.10
	NSP	Ken Sun	6,683	33.90
Majority			6,345	32.2
Registered electors			21,631
Turnout			20,199	93.4
	PAP win (new seat)

Historical maps

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  1955 General Election