Kaki Bukit Single Member Constituency

Kaki Bukit Single Member Constituency (Traditional Chinese: 加基武吉單選區;Simplified Chinese: 加基武吉单选区) is a former single member constituency (SMC) in Bedok, Singapore; carved from Kampong Chai Chee division in prior to 1980 elections and was absorbed into the Eunos GRC on 1988 elections.

In 1984, Tan Chee Kien was offered an auxiliary Non-constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP) seat [1] after Madai Puthan Damodaran Nair, a Workers' Party candidate in Jalan Kayu SMC had declined the offered NCMP seat,[2] but he had declined as well.

Members of Parliament
Member of Parliament Party Dates Notes
Saidi Shariff PAP 1980–1984
Chew Heng Ching PAP 1984–1988

Candidates and results

Elections in 1980s
General Election 1980: Kaki Bukit
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PAP Saidi Shariff 14,550 72.32
PKMS Ibrahim bin Ariff 4,072 20.24
United People's Front Atim bin Ismail 1,496 7.44
Turnout 20,666 96.9
PAP win (new seat)
General Election 1984: Kaki Bukit
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PAP Chew Heng Ching 10,229 52.28 -20.04
SUF Tan Chee Kien 9,336 47.72 +47.32
Turnout 16,764 96.4 -20.04
PAP hold Swing -7.21

References
  1. Kaki Bukit's SUF candidate was offered first auxiliary NCMP seat but declined as well. Archived 2011-05-29 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Jalan Kayu's WP candidate was offered first NCMP seat. Archived 2011-05-29 at the Wayback Machine
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