Seletar Single Member Constituency

Seletar Single Member Constituency was a single-member constituency of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Singapore between 1951 and 1959. It covered the Seletar area in North-East Region. The constituency's boundaries were redrawn in 1955,[1] with Sembawang constituency created from part of its former area.[2]

Seletar
Former Constituency
for the Legislative Council of Singapore and the Legislative Assembly of Singapore
RegionNorth-East Region, Singapore
Electorate9,402 (1955)
Former constituency
Created1951
Abolished1959
Seats1
Created from
Replaced by

The 1952 Seletar by-election remains the only occasion on which a candidate not from the People's Action Party won unopposed.[3]

Constituency changes

Election Boundary changes Electorate
1951 Constituency formed from Rural East and Rural West. 5,025
1955 Parts of the constituency were separated to form Bukit Panjang, Sembawang and Serangoon. 9,402
1959 Constituency abolished and split into Jalan Kayu, Nee Soon, Serangoon Gardens and Thomson.

List of members

Election Member Party
Legislative Council of Singapore
1951 Vilasini Menon Independent
1952 by-election Madai Puthan Damodaran Nair Independent
Legislative Assembly of Singapore
1955 Madai Puthan Damodaran Nair Independent

References


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