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When the late Dr [[Ong Chit Chung]] died from heart failure in July 2008, Prime Minister [[Lee Hsien Loong]] announced that there would be no [[by-elections]] to fill the position, as there are other MPs looking after the constituency as GRC. Dr Ong's seat for Bukit Batok was replaced by Mdm [[Halimah Yacob]] from the nearby Bukit Batok East ward, until the [[Singapore general election, 2011|next election in 2011]]. |
When the late Dr [[Ong Chit Chung]] died from heart failure in July 2008, Prime Minister [[Lee Hsien Loong]] announced that there would be no [[by-elections]] to fill the position, as there are other MPs looking after the constituency as GRC. Dr Ong's seat for Bukit Batok was replaced by Mdm [[Halimah Yacob]] from the nearby Bukit Batok East ward, until the [[Singapore general election, 2011|next election in 2011]]. |
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When Minister [[Lim Boon Heng]] retired from politics in 2011, both |
When Minister [[Lim Boon Heng]] retired from politics in 2011, both new MPs [[Desmond Lee (Singaporean politician)|Desmond Lee]] and [[Ang Wei Neng]] assumed leadership for Jurong GRC. |
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==Members of Parliament== |
==Members of Parliament== |
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Revision as of 08:01, 4 August 2016
| Jurong | |
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| Group Representation constituency for the Parliament of Singapore | |
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| Region | Southwestern Singapore |
| Electorate | 130,498 |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2001 |
| Number of members | 5 |
| Member(s) | Ang Wei Neng Tharaman Shanmugaratnam Desmond Lee Rahayu Mahzam Tan Wu Meng |
| Town Council | Jurong-Clementi |
- Not to be confused with the pre-independence era ward in Jurong called, Jurong Single Member Constituency, which lasted between the 1959 general elections and the 1997 general elections.
Jurong Group Representation Constituency (Chinese: 裕廊集选区; Template:Lang-ms; Template:Lang-ta) is a five-member Group Representation Constituency located in the western area of Singapore. The GRC consists of a large section of Jurong, sections of Bukit Batok and areas near Upper Bukit Timah Road. The subdivisions of the GRC are Bukit Batok East, Jurong Central, Taman Jurong and parts of Hong Kah. Yuhua and Bukit Batok divisions had been crafted out as Single Member Constituencies for the 2011 general elections and 2015 general elections respectively. The constituency was contested in the 2001 general election with the People's Action Party against the Singapore Democratic Party. The seat has always been held by the People's Action Party since its creation in 2001.
The electoral boundaries have been redrawn before the 2015 General Elections. In the 2015 General Election, the re-organised subdivisions of the GRC are Clementi, Bukit Batok East, Jurong Central, Jurong Spring and Taman Jurong.
Jurong GRC was a hotly contested seat in the 2001 general election with SDP leading the opposition team.
When the late Dr Ong Chit Chung died from heart failure in July 2008, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced that there would be no by-elections to fill the position, as there are other MPs looking after the constituency as GRC. Dr Ong's seat for Bukit Batok was replaced by Mdm Halimah Yacob from the nearby Bukit Batok East ward, until the next election in 2011.
When Minister Lim Boon Heng retired from politics in 2011, both new MPs Desmond Lee and Ang Wei Neng assumed leadership for Jurong GRC.
Members of Parliament
| Election | Yuhua | Bukit Batok | Jurong Central | Bukit Batok East | Taman Jurong | Jurong Spring | Clementi |
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| 1997 | Bukit Timah GRC | Hong Kah GRC as 'Hong Kah East |
Carved from Bukit Batok and parts of Bukit Gombak and Bukit Timah | Carved Bukit Timah GRC as Jurong |
Hong Kah GRC as 'Hong Kah south |
West Coast GRC | |
| Formation | |||||||
| 2001 | Yu-Foo Yee Shoon | Ong Chit Chung (2001-2008) | Lim Boon Heng | Halimah Bte Yacob | Tharman Shanmugaratnam | Carved from Jurong Central and Boon Lay | |
| 2006 | Grace Fu Hai Yien | ||||||
| 2011 | Yuhua SMC | David Ong Kim Huat | Ang Wei Neng | Desmond Lee | |||
| 2015 | SMC | Rahayu Binte Mahzam | Tan Wu Meng | ||||
Areas of responsibility
- Bukit Batok East - Blk 2xx (part) of Bukit Batok ,Toh Guan Estate ,International Business Park, , Beauty World(part), Palm Valley and Hoover Park ,Jurong east -toh guan estate Blks 201-208,265A-288E
- Clementi - Blocks 321-367 and 4xx of Clementi New Town, Clementi Mall and Faber Heights
- Jurong Central - part of blk 3xx of Jurong East (north of jurong east ave 1),some parts of Blk 4xx of Jurong West
- Jurong Spring - Blk 5xx and some parts of Blk 4xx of Jurong West
- Taman Jurong - Blk 1xx and 3xx of Taman Jurong Estate , Yuan Ching Road and Chinese and Japanese Gardens ,Science centre ,jurong lake
Candidates and results
Elections on 2010s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PAP | Ang Wei Neng Tharaman Shanmugaratnam Desmond Lee Rahayu Mahzam Tan Wu Meng |
95,080 | 79.28 |  12.32
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| SingFirst | Foo Ming Jin David Sukdeu Singh Tan Peng Ann Wong Chee Wai Wong Soon Hong |
24,848 | 20.72 | N/A | |
| Majority | 61,666 | 55.37 | N/A | ||
| Rejected ballots | 2,432 | ||||
| Turnout | 122,360 | ||||
| PAP hold | Swing | N/A | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PAP | Tharman Shanmugaratnam Ang Wei Neng Desmond Lee David Ong Halimah Yacob |
76,595 | 66.96% | N/A | |
| NSP | Christopher Neo Ting Wei Elvin Ong beng soon Abdul Rasheed Noraini Yunus Ong Hock Siong |
37,786 | 33.07% | N/A | |
| Turnout | 117,087 | 93.5 | N/A | ||
| PAP hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Elections in 2000s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PAP | Tharman Shanmugaratnam Lim Boon Heng Ong Chit Chung Halimah Yacob Grace Fu |
Walkover | |||
| Turnout | 116,573 | N/A | |||
| PAP hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PAP | Tharman Shanmugaratnam Lim Boon Heng Ong Chit Chung Halimah Yacob Yu-Foo Yee Shoon |
84,472 | 79.75% | N/A | |
| SDP | Chee Soon Juan Chee Siok Chin Gandhi s/o Karuppiah Ambalam Mohamed Isa Bin Abdul Aziz Yeo Boon Keng Vincent |
21,511 | 20.25% | N/A | |
| Turnout | 115,113 | 94.8 | N/A | ||
| PAP win (new seat) | |||||
