Kim Keat Single Member Constituency

Former Single Member Constituency in Singapore

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Kim Keat
Single Member constituency for the Parliament of Singapore
Region	Singapore
Current constituency
Created	1968
Seats	1
Member(s)	Constituency Abolished
Town Council	Toa Payoh
Replaced by	Toa Payoh GRC Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC

Kim Keat Single Member Constituency was a constituency in Singapore. It used to exist from 1968 to 1988 as Kim Keat Constituency and was renamed as Kim Keat Single Member Constituency (SMC) as part of Singapore's political reforms. The SMC was merged into Toa Payoh Group Representation Constituency in 1991. Ong Teng Cheong was the only Member of Parliament throughout its existence.

Member of Parliament

Year	Member of Parliament	Party
1972	Ong Teng Cheong		PAP
1976
1980
1984
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 1970s

General Election 1972: Kim Keat
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PAP	Ong Teng Cheong	10,262	74.00
	WP	Seow Khee Leng	3,022	21.79
	UNF	W. J. Paglar	583	4.21
Majority			7,240	52.21
Registered electors			14,640
	PAP win (new seat)

General Election 1976: Kim Keat
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Ong Teng Cheong	14,262	76.62	2.62
	BS	Chin Tian Choo	4,353	23.38
Registered electors			19,700		34.6
	PAP hold		Swing	2.62

Elections in 1980s

General Election 1980: Kim Keat
Party		Candidate	Votes	±%
	PAP	Ong Teng Cheong	Unopposed
Registered electors			20,781	5.5
	PAP hold

General Election 1984: Kim Keat
Party		Candidate	Votes	±%
	PAP	Ong Teng Cheong	Unopposed
Registered electors			20,439	1.6
	PAP hold

General Election 1988: Kim Keat
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Ong Teng Cheong	10,644	73.00	N/A
	SDP	Md Shariff Bin Yahya	3,937	27.00	N/A
Majority			6,707	46	N/A
Registered electors			15,850		19.5
	PAP hold

References

"1972 PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS". Retrieved 3 December 2020.
"1976 PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS". Retrieved 3 December 2020.
"1980 PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS". Retrieved 3 December 2020.
"1984 PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS". Retrieved 3 December 2020.
"1988 PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS". Retrieved 3 December 2020.

Constituencies of Singapore

Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of representatives assigned.

Group Representation
Constituencies (GRCs)

Single Member
Constitutencies (SMCs)

Defunct constituencies

MMCs	Municipal North-East (2) Municipal South-West (2)
GRCs	Bedok (4) Brickworks (4) Bukit Timah (5) Cheng San (5) Eunos (4) Holland–Bukit Panjang (5) Hong Kah (5) Kampong Glam (4) Kreta Ayer–Tanglin (4) Moulmein–Kallang (4) Pasir Panjang (3) Pasir Ris (4) Thomson (4) Tiong Bahru (3) Toa Payoh (4)

Lists of electoral divisions

1900s	1948–51 1951–55 1955–59 1959–63 1963–68 1968–72 1972–76 1976–80 1980–84 1984–88 1988–91 1991–97 1997–2001
2000s	2001–06 2006–11 2011–15 2015–20

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