Brickworks Group Representation Constituency

Brickworks Group Representation Constituency (Traditional Chinese: 磚廠集選區; Simplified Chinese: 砖厂集选区) is a defunct Group Representation Constituency in Bukit Merah, Queenstown and Clementi, Singapore[1] from 1988 to 1997.

Etymology

In the early days of Singapore, there was a brick factory in the Bukit Merah (Alexandra) areas and hence the name. One of the notable place in that area includes the ABC Brickworks Hawker Centre where it has different delicacies to offer, located in Jalan Bukit Merah.[2][3]

Members of Parliament
Election Alexandra Brickworks Queenstown Clementi West Coast
1984 Alexandra SMC Brickworks SMC Queenstown SMC Clementi SMC West Coast SMC
Formation
1988 Tan Soo Khoon Ahmad bin Mohammad Mattar Chay Wai Chuen Pasir Panjang GRC
1991 Absorbed into Queenstown and Brickworks Bernard Chen Wan Soon Bee
Dissolution
1997 Absorbed into Tanjong Pagar GRC Queenstown Absorbed into Tanjong Pagar GRC's Queenstown ward and West Coast GRC's Pasir Panjang ward Tanjong Pagar GRC West Coast GRC

Candidates and results

Elections in 1990s
General Election 1991: Brickworks GRC
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PAP Ahmad Mattar
Chay Wai Chuen
Chen Tien Lap Bernard
Wan Soon Bee		 Walkover
Turnout 101,440
PAP hold Swing

Elections in 1980s
General Election 1988: Brickworks GRC
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PAP Ahmad Mattar
Chay Wai Chuen
Tan Soo Khoon		 26,870 67.43 +0.86
WP Ismail Yacob
Goh Teng Hoon
J C Corera		 12,977 32.57 -0.86
Turnout 40,557 94.1
PAP win (new seat)

References
  1. Location of Brickworks estate in Google Earth / Maps
  2. Yongjun, Deng; Jingxian, Yang. "Adhere to the original flavor". i-Weekly. MSN. Archived from the original on 14 April 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  3. There was a factory in Alexandra that bakes bricks
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