Brickworks Group Representation Constituency

Brickworks Group Representation Constituency (Traditional Chinese: 磚廠集選區; Simplified Chinese: 砖厂集选区) is a defunct Group Representation Constituency in Bukit Merah and Queenstown, Singapore[1] from 1988 to 1997.

Etymology

In the early days of Singapore, there was a brick factory in the Bukit Merah (Alexandra) areas and hence the name. One of the notable place in that area includes the ABC Brickworks Hawker Centre where it has different delicates to offer, located in Jalan Bukit Merah.[2][3]

Members of Parliament

Election Alexandra Brickworks Queenstown Clementi West Coast
1984 Alexandra SMC
 Brickworks SMC
 Queenstown SMC
 Clementi SMC
 West Coast SMC
Formation
1988 Tan Soo Khoon Ahmad bin Mohammad Mattar Chay Wai Chuen Pasir Panjang GRC
as Clementi, West Coast & Pasir Panjang
1991 Absorbed into Queenstown Bernard Chen Wan Soon Bee
Dissolution
1997 Absorbed into Queenstown
Tanjong Pagar GRC		 Tanjong Pagar GRC West Coast GRC

Areas in the past

1988: Alexandra consisting of Dover HDB estate, Alexandra Industrial Park, Tanglin Halt, Stirling Road HDB estate (including Mei Ling Street, Mei Chin Road and Queen's Close), parts of Margaret Drive and Stirling Road SIT flats, Brickworks consisting of the entire Brickworks HDB estate and Jalan Rumah Tinggi and Queenstown consisting of Margaret Drive, Commonwealth (including Commonwealth Close, Drive and Crescent), Strathmore Avenue and Dawson Road

1991: Brickworks consisting of the entire Brickworks and Dover HDB estates, Jalan Rumah Tinggi, Lengkok Bahru (except Lengkok Bahru estate), the entire Stirling Road HDB estate (including Mei Ling Street, Mei Chin Road and Queen's Close) and Pasir Panjang, Queenstown consisting of Tanglin Halt, Margaret Drive, Strathmore Avenue, Dawson Road, Forfar House and Commonwealth (including Commonwealth Close, Drive and Crescent), Clementi consisting of Sunset Way estate, Pine Grove HUDC estate and the rest of Clementi (Neighbourhoods 1, 2, 3 & 4) and West Coast consisting of West Coast estate and Clementi (Neighbourhoods 5, 6 & 7).

Candidates and results

Elections in 1990s

General Election 1991: Brickworks GRC
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PAP Ahmad Mattar
Chay Wai Chuen
Chen Tien Lap Bernard
Wan Soon Bee		 Walkover
Turnout 101,440
PAP hold Swing

Elections in 1980s

General Election 1988: Brickworks GRC
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PAP Ahmad Mattar
Chay Wai Chuen
Tan Soo Khoon		 26,870 67.43 +0.86
WP J C Corera
Goh Teng Hoon
Ismail Yaacob		 12,977 32.57 -0.86
Turnout 40,557 94.1
PAP win (new seat)

References

  1. ↑ Location of Brickworks estate in Google Earth / Maps
  2. ↑ To show the existence of ABC Hawker Centre and not to promote food in this wiki article
  3. ↑ There was a factory in Alexandra that bakes bricks
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