Paya Lebar Single Member Constituency

Not to be confused with the later Kampong Kembangan Single Member Constituency.

Kampong Kembangan
Single Member constituency for the Parliament of Singapore
Region	Singapore
Current constituency
Created	1955
Seats	1
Member(s)	Constituency Abolished
Replaced by	Aljunied GRC

Paya Lebar Single Member Constituency was a constituency in Singapore.

It used to exist from 1955 to 1988 as Paya Lebar Constituency and was renamed as Paya Lebar Single Member Constituency (SMC) as part of Singapore's political reforms. The SMC was merged into Aljunied Group Representation Constituency in 1997.

Member of Parliament

Year	Member of Parliament	Party
Legislative Assembly of Singapore
1955	Lim Koon Teck		PP
1959	Tan Kia Gan		PAP
1963	Kow Kee Seng		BS
Parliament of Singapore
1968	Tay Boon Too		PAP
1972
1976	Tan Cheng San
1980	Sia Kah Hui
1984	Philip Tan Tee Yong
1988

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

General Election 1955: Paya Lebar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PP	Lim Koon Teck	3,330	52.1
	DP	Tan Eng Joo	3,065	47.9
Majority			265	4.2	N/A
Turnout			6,494	50.6
	PP win (new seat)

General Election 1959: Paya Lebar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Tan Kia Gan	6,531	60.8
	Independent	Ong Chye Hock	4,209	39.2
Majority			2,322	21.6	N/A
Turnout			10,842	89.7
	PAP gain from SPA		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1963: Paya Lebar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BS	Kow Kee Seng	6,152	48.0
	PAP	Tan Kia Gan	5,402	42.1	−18.7
	UPP	Lau Tok Keong	858	6.7
	SA	Goh Yeow Dek	415	3.2
Majority			750	5.9
Turnout			12,946	95.6
	BS gain from PAP		Swing

Historical maps

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  1955 General Election