Aljunied Single Member Constituency

Aljuined
Aljuined
	Single Member Constituency; for the Parliament of Singapore
Region	Singapore
Current constituency
Created	1959
Member(s)	Chin Harn Tong
Town Council	Aljuined
Replaced by	Aljuined GRC

Aljunied Single Member Constituency (Traditional Chinese: 阿裕尼單選區; Simplified Chinese: 阿裕尼单选区) is a defunct single member constituency in Aljunied, Singapore that was formed in 1959 and continued throughout till 1988 where it was one of the wards that form the Aljunied Group Representation Constituency.

Members of Parliament

Member of Parliament		Dates	Notes
Suppiah Visva Lingam	PAP	1959-1968
Mohamad Ghazali bin Ismail	PAP	1968-1972
Chin Harn Tong	PAP	1972-1988	Constituency absorbed into Aljuined Group Representation Constituency

General Election 1980: Aljunied
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Chin Harn Tong	13,313	84.59	+9.71
	UF	Sim Peng Kim	2,425	15.41	+15.41
Turnout			16,191	95.1	+0.8
	PAP hold		Swing	+9.71

General Election 1976: Aljunied
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Chin Harn Tong	12,230	74.88	+3.37
	WP	Lim Kang Chew	4,103	24.25	+0.87
Turnout			16,645	94.3	-0.4
	PAP hold		Swing	+3.37

General Election 1972: Aljunied
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Chin Harn Tong	12,861	71.51
	WP	Lim Kang Chew	4,360	24.25
	United National Front	Amir Ali bin Mohamed	762	4.24
Turnout			18,251	94.7	N/A
	PAP hold		Swing

General Election 1963: Aljunied
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Suppiah Visva Lingam	7,745	50.90	+1.5
	BS	Thio Kheng Lock	4,624	30.39	+30.39
	SA	Lim Koon Teck	1,681	11.05	+11.05
	UPP	Woo Kong Seng	1,165	7.66	+7.66
Turnout			15,347	95.0	+6.6
	PAP hold		Swing	+1.5

General Election 1959: Aljunied
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PAP	Suppiah Visva Lingam	5,701	49.40
	LSP	Edward Henry Holloway	5,004	43.36
	Partai Rakyat	Tang Yoong Chiaw	835	7.24
Turnout			11,713	88.4
	PAP win (new seat)

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