Cairnhill Single Member Constituency

Cairnhill Single Member Constituency was a constituency in Singapore. It used to exist from 1955 to 1991, and was replaced by the Kampong Glam Group Representation Constituency. Lim Kim San is a Member of Parliament from 1959 to 1980 and was replaced by Wong Kwei Cheong which ran all the way until the Kampong Glam GRC merger in 1991.

Assemblymen and Members of Parliament

Member of Parliament	Party		Dates	Notes
David Marshall		LF	1955-1957	Chief Minister 1955-1956
Soh Ghee Soon		LSP	1957-1959
Lim Yew Hock		SPA	1959-1963	Chief Minister 1956-1959
Lim Kim San		PAP	1963-1980
Wong Kwei Cheong		PAP	1980-1991
Constituency abolished Merge into Kampong Glam GRC

Elections in 1950s

General Election 1959: Cairnhill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SPA	Lim Yew Hock	5,275	48.22%	N/A
	WP	David Marshall	2,920	26.69%	N/A
	PAP	Md. Oh Su Chen	2,262	20.68%	N/A
	LSP	Tan Keng Siong	483	4.41%	N/A
Turnout			N/A	N/A	N/A
	SPA hold		Swing	N/A

By-election 1957: Cairnhill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LSP	Soh Ghee Soon	2,342	40.3	N/A
	Independent	Goh Kong Beng	1,281	22.0	N/A
	LF	Keng Ban Ee	1,118	19.2	−28.4
	Malay Union	Tengku Muda Muhamed bin Mahmud	983	16.9	N/A
	Independent	Mirza Abdul Majid	91	1.6	N/A
Majority			1,061	18.3	N/A
Turnout			5,889	39.8	−14.0
	LSP gain from LF		Swing	N/A

General Election 1955: Cairnhill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LF	David Marshall	3,305	47.58%	N/A
	PP	C.C. Tan	2,530	36.42%	N/A
	DP	Tan Khiang Khoo	1,111	16.00%	N/A
Turnout			N/A	N/A	N/A
	LF hold		Swing	N/A