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Kaki Bukit Constituency

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Kampong Kembangan
Single Member constituency
for the Parliament of Singapore
RegionSingapore
Current constituency
Created1980
Seats1
Member(s)Constituency Abolished
Replaced byAljunied GRC

Kaki Bukit Constituency was a 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 the non-constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP) seat [1] after Madai Puthan Damodaran Nair, a Workers' Party candidate in Jalan Kayu Constituency had declined the offered NCMP seat.[2] Tan declined the seat as well.

Member of Parliament

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Year Member of Parliament Party
1980 Saidi Shariff PAP
1984 Chew Heng Ching

Elections

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Note : Elections Department Singapore do not include rejected votes for calculation of candidate's vote share. Hence, the total of all candidates' vote share will be 100%.

Elections in 1980s

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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
DPP Tan Chee Kien 9,336 47.72 +47.32
Turnout 16,764 96.4 −20.04
PAP hold Swing -7.21

References

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