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This GRC was created from the wards of Pasir Ris and parts of Tampines North from the defunct Eunos Group Representation Constituency. In 2001 General Election, this GRC had absorbed 3 wards in Punggol areas, while 3 of the existing 4 member wards in Pasir Ris was consolidated into 2 wards.
In the 2020 general election, the GRC was reduced to five members, with a newly formed constituency called Punggol West SMC carved out from the boundaries of Pasir-Ris Punggol GRC and Sengkang Central ward carved out to become part of the new Sengkang GRC, the Tampines retail park (part of the Pasir Ris area) was also redrawn into Tampines GRC.
A group representation constituency (GRC) is a type of electoral division or constituency in Singapore in which teams of candidates, instead of individual candidates, compete to be elected into Parliament as the Members of Parliament (MPs) for the constituency.
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The Sengkang Group Representation Constituency is a four-member Group Representation Constituency (GRC) in the north-eastern region of Singapore.It consists of Punggol East SMC, Sengkang West SMC and what was previously the Sengkang Central ward of the Pasir Ris–Punggol GRC.
Punggol East SMC was the sole constituency to feature a three-cornered contest for the 2011 election. The election was won by People's Action Party's Michael Palmer, who was the incumbent MP of the ward with 54.54% of the votes, beating Workers' Party's newcomer Lee Li Lian and Singapore Democratic Alliance's secretary-general Desmond Lim, who garnered 41.01% and 4.45% of the votes ...
Pasir Ris–Punggol GRC: Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean, Mayor and Minister of State for Trade and Industry Teo Ser Luck, Zainal Sapari and Janil Puthucheary would remain in their wards; Ng Chee Meng and Sun Xueling would respectively replace retiring MP Penny Low and now-Ang Mo Kio GRC MP Gan Thiam Poh.
The Punggol West SMC is a former ward of the Pasir Ris–Punggol Group Representation Constituency (GRC). [2] During the review of electoral boundaries in March 2020 in the run up to the 2020 Singaporean general election, Punggol West SMC was carved out of Pasir Ris–Punggol GRC.