Nee Soon South Single Member Constituency

Nee Soon South Single Member Constituency (Traditional Chinese: 義順南單選區; Simplified Chinese: 义顺南单选区) is a defunct single member constituency consisting of Yishun's Neighbourhood 8 (Khatib),part of Neighbourhood 7, near Springleaf MRT station, houses and condominiums along Kebun Baru and private residential areas along Sembawang Road(near Sembawang Army Camp).It was formed after Yishun had been developed since 1988 when the pre-independence era Nee Soon ward was broken up into several wards. It was absorbed into Ang Mo Kio GRC in 1997 after the Singapore Democratic Party had lost narrowly there in 1991 elections until 2011 when it was released and together with other wards in Yishun, it formed the present Nee Soon GRC.

Members of Parliament

Koh Lip Lin (1988–1997)

Constituency Abolished (1997 – ) Note: Presently, it is a sub-constituency of Nee Soon GRC

Candidates and results

Elections in 1990s

General Election 1991: Nee Soon South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Koh Lip Lin	13,719	52.76	-12.12
	SDP	Low Yong Nguan	12,284	47.24	+12.12
Turnout			26,576	95.9	-0.4
	PAP hold		Swing	-12.12

Elections in 1980s

General Election 1988: Nee Soon South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PAP	Koh Lip Lin	13,793	64.88
	SDP	Yong Chu Leong	6,533	30.73
	United People's Front	Munjeet Singh	932	4.39
Turnout			21,710	96.3
	PAP win (new seat)

References

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