Bukit_Timah_Constituency

Bukit Timah Single Member Constituency

Former electoral constituency in Singapore

Not to be confused with Bukit Timah Group Representation Constituency.

Bukit Timah Single Member Constituency (SMC) was a single member constituency in Bukit Timah, Singapore. It was formerly known as Bukit Timah Constituency before 1988.

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Quick Facts Region, Electorate ...

Bukit Timah
Former Single Member constituency for the Parliament of Singapore
Region	Central Region, Singapore
Electorate	24,512 (1991)
Former constituency
Created	1951
Abolished	1997
Seats	1
Created from	Rural West
Replaced by	Bukit Timah GRC

Quick Facts Region, Electorate ...

Bukit Timah
Former Single Member constituency for the Parliament of Singapore
Region	Central Region, Singapore
Electorate	26,951 (2001)
Former constituency
Created	2001
Abolished	2006
Seats	1
Created from	Bukit Timah GRC
Replaced by	Holland–Bukit Timah GRC

History

In 1951, Rural West Constituency was broken up into Bukit Timah constituency and Seletar constituency .

In 1955, the constituency was broken up to form various constituencies, Bukit Panjang, Pasir Panjang, Queenstown, Sembawang and Southern Islands SMC. In 1959, it was further broken up to form Jurong SMC.

In 1972, the constituency was broken up to form Bukit Batok SMC, followed by in 1980 distributed to Ayer Rajah SMC, Clementi SMC and West Coast SMC with the growing development of Clementi, and in 1984 to Yuhua SMC and Hong Kah SMC with the growing development of Jurong East.

In 1988, as part of Singapore's electoral reforms, the constituency was renamed as Bukit Timah Single Member Constituency.

In 1997, it was absorbed into Bukit Timah GRC along with Bukit Batok SMC, Jurong SMC, Ulu Pandan SMC and Yuhua SMC.

In 2001, the SMC was recreated as Bukit Timah GRC was broken up to form Holland–Bukit Panjang GRC, Jurong GRC and Bukit Timah SMC. In 2006, the SMC was absorbed into another GRC, Holland–Bukit Timah GRC.

Member of Parliament

More information Election, Member of Parliament ...

Election	Member of Parliament
Legislative Council of Singapore
1951	Hollupatherage James Caldera Kulasingha	PP
Legislative Assembly of Singapore
1955	Lim Chin Siong	PAP
1959	Ya'acob bin Mohamed	PAP
1963	Lee Tee Tong	BS
1966	Chor Yeok Eng	PAP
Parliament of Singapore
1968	Chor Yeok Eng	PAP
1972
1976
1980
1984	Wang Kai Yuen
1988
1991
Constituency abolished (1997 – 2001)
2001	Wang Kai Yuen	PAP

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%.