Ang Mo Kio Group Representation Constituency

Ang Mo Kio
Ang Mo Kio
	Group Representation Constituency; for the Parliament of Singapore
Region	North-East Region, Singapore
Electorate	185,465
Current constituency
Created	1991
Seats	5
Party	People's Action Party
Member(s)	Lee Hsien Loong; Darryl David; Gan Thiam Poh; Ng Ling Ling; Nadia Ahmad Samdin
Town Council	Ang Mo Kio

Ang Mo Kio Group Representation Constituency is a five-member Group Representation Constituency (GRC) in the north eastern region of Singapore. The constituency encompasses the majority of Ang Mo Kio (Teck Ghee, Cheng San-Seletar, portions of Yio Chu Kang), Seletar Hills, the northern half of Serangoon North, a portion of northern Hougang which consists schools like Monfort Junior and Secondary School and ITE College Central, Jalan Kayu and a portion of Fernvale. The western portion consists of parts of the Central Catchment Nature Reserve, while in the northeastern corner, it borders the Straits of Johor with two reclaimed islands, Pulau Punggol Barat and Pulau Punggol Timor. The northeast also includes the Sengkang Floating Wetland.

Billboard at Anchorvale commemorating National Day 2006, showing the Members of Parliament for Ang Mo Kio GRC after the elections in 2006.

There are five divisions in the GRC: Teck Ghee, Ang Mo Kio-Hougang, Fernvale, Cheng San-Seletar and Jalan Kayu. Ang Mo Kio GRC has been held by the People's Action Party since its formation in 1991 and was uncontested in every general election until 2006. It is considered a stronghold of the party and led by the prime minister and secretary general of the People Action Party (PAP) Lee Hsien Loong.

History

In the 2001 general election, the constituency was enlarged to include most parts of the Cheng San Group Representation Constituency, while during the general election in 2006, the Yio Chu Kang division – where the centre of Ang Mo Kio town is located – was hived off as a Single Member Constituency (SMC). The SMC was subsequently merged back into Ang Mo Kio GRC during the 2011 general election.

Nee Soon South was part of the GRC until 2011 and Kebun Baru until 2015 – both were transferred to the Nee Soon GRC. In their place, parts of northern Hougang were progressively introduced into the GRC; Ang Mo Kio-Hougang in place of Nee Soon South, and Sengkang South in place of Kebun Baru.

In the 2020 general election, Kebun Baru and Yio Chu Kang became SMCs while the GRC absorbed the Fernvale portion of Sengkang West SMC. In return, the Anchorvale portion of Sengkang West SMC was subsumed into the newly-created Sengkang GRC, and Ang Mo Kio GRC's seats were reduced by one to five seats.

Ang Mo Kio GRC with Kebun Baru SMC & Yio Chu Kang SMC are under the same town council, Ang Mo Kio Town Council.

Members of Parliament

Election	Division	Incumbent	Party
Formation
1991	Ang Mo Kio Kebun Baru Teck Ghee Yio Chu Kang	Yeo Toon Chia Umar Abdul Hamid Lee Hsien Loong Lau Ping Sum		PAP
1997	Ang Mo Kio Kebun Baru Nee Soon South Teck Ghee Yio Chu Kang	Tang Guan Seng Inderjit Singh Tan Boon Wan Lee Hsien Loong Seng Han Thong		PAP
2001	Cheng San–Seletar Kebun Baru Jalan Kayu Nee Soon South Teck Ghee Yio Chu Kang	Balaji Sadasivan Inderjit Singh Wee Siew Kim Tan Boon Wan Lee Hsien Loong Seng Han Thong		PAP
2006	Cheng San–Seletar Kebun Baru Jalan Kayu Nee Soon South Sengkang West Teck Ghee	Balaji Sadasivan (2001–2010)¹ Inderjit Singh Wee Siew Kim Lee Bee Wah Lam Pin Min Lee Hsien Loong		PAP
2011	Ang Mo Kio–Hougang Cheng San–Seletar Kebun Baru Jalan Kayu Teck Ghee Yio Chu Kang	Yeo Guat Kwang Ang Hin Kee Inderjit Singh Intan Azura Mokhtar Lee Hsien Loong Seng Han Thong		PAP
2015	Ang Mo Kio–Hougang Cheng San–Seletar Jalan Kayu Sengkang South Teck Ghee Yio Chu Kang	Darryl David Ang Hin Kee Intan Azura Mokhtar Gan Thiam Poh Lee Hsien Loong Koh Poh Koon		PAP
2020	Ang Mo Kio–Hougang Cheng San–Seletar Jalan Kayu Fernvale Teck Ghee	Darryl David Nadia Ahmad Samdin Ng Ling Ling Gan Thiam Poh Lee Hsien Loong		PAP

^ Balaji died in his sleep on 27 September 2010 due to cancer relapse.

Candidates and results

Elections in 1990s

General Election 1991: Ang Mo Kio GRC
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Yeo Toon Chia Lee Hsien Loong Lau Pin Sum Umar Abdul Hamid	Walkover
Turnout			74,004	N/A	N/A
	PAP hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1997: Ang Mo Kio GRC
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Tang Guan Seng Lee Hsien Loong Inderjit Singh Seng Han Thong Tan Boon Wan	Walkover
Turnout			125,344	N/A	N/A
	PAP hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in 2000s

General Election 2001: Ang Mo Kio GRC
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Lee Hsien Loong Inderjit Singh Seng Han Thong Tan Boon Wan Wee Siew Kim Balaji Sadasivan	Walkover
Turnout			166,644	N/A	N/A
	PAP hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 2006: Ang Mo Kio GRC
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Lee Hsien Loong Balaji Sadasivan Inderjit Singh Wee Siew Kim Lam Pin Min Lee Bee Wah	96,636	66.14	N/A
	WP	Yaw Shin Leong Abdul Salim Bin Haroun Han Su May Lee Wai Leng Tan Kian Hwee Melvin Gopal Krishnan	49,479	33.86	N/A
Turnout			149,094	93.2	N/A
	PAP hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in 2010s

General Election 2011: Ang Mo Kio GRC
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Lee Hsien Loong Yeo Guat Kwang Inderjit Singh Seng Han Thong Ang Hin Kee Intan Azura Mokhtar	112,677	69.33	3.19
	RP	Arthero Lim Alex Tan Osman Bin Sulaiman Mansor Rahman Lim Zi Rui Vigneswari Ramachandran	49,851	30.67	N/A
Turnout			167,562	93.6	0.4
	PAP hold		Swing	3.14

General Election 2015: Ang Mo Kio GRC
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Lee Hsien Loong Darryl David Ang Hin Kee Intan Azura Mokhtar Gan Thiam Poh Koh Poh Koon	135,115	78.63	9.3
	RP	Osman Bin Sulaiman Gilbert Goh M Ravi Roy Ngerng Siva Chandran Jessie Loo	36,711	21.37	9.3
Majority			98,404	57.26
Rejected ballots			4,887	2.60
Turnout			176,713	94.11	0.51
	PAP hold		Swing	9.3

Elections in 2020s

General Election 2020: Ang Mo Kio GRC
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Lee Hsien Loong Darryl David Gan Thiam Poh Ng Ling Ling Nadia Ahmad Samdin	124,430	71.91	6.72
	RP	Kenneth Jeyaretnam Charles Yeo Andy Zhu Noraini Yunus Darren Soh	48,600	28.09	6.72
Majority			75,830	43.82
Rejected ballots			5,009	2.81
Turnout			178,039	96.00	1.89
Registered electors			185,465
	PAP hold		Swing	6.72

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