Aljunied Group Representation Constituency

The Aljunied Group Representation Constituency is a five-member group representation constituency (GRC) in the north-eastern and eastern region of Singapore. It consists of a large part of Hougang (excluding Hougang SMC), Paya Lebar, Serangoon Gardens, the southern half of Serangoon North as well as a portion of Bedok. Parts that will be moving to Tampines GRC in 2025 include a very small section of Tampines and Paya Lebar Air Base, as there will be new developments in Paya Lebar and it will be harder to cope. The GRC consists of five divisions: Eunos, Bedok Reservoir-Punggol, Kaki Bukit, Serangoon and Paya Lebar. The current members of parliament are Gerald Giam, Pritam Singh, Muhamad Faisal Manap and Sylvia Lim from the Workers' Party (WP) after the resignation of Leon Perera.

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Aljunied
Group Representation constituency for the Parliament of Singapore

Region	North-East and East Regions, Singapore
Electorate	144,032
Current constituency
Created	1988; 37 years ago (1988)
Seats	5
Party	Workers' Party
Member(s)	Gerald Giam Pritam Singh Faisal Manap Sylvia Lim
Town Council	Aljunied–Hougang
Created from	Aljunied SMC Kampong Kembangan SMC Kampong Ubi SMC Eunos SMC Kaki Bukit SMC Paya Lebar SMC Cheng San GRC Eunos GRC Marine Parade GRC

History

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Aljunied GRC was formed in 1988 and was won by the People's Action Party (PAP). The WP team, led by WP leader Low Thia Khiang left his stronghold at Hougang SMC, made a historic breakthrough when the WP team won the election for the GRC with 54.72% of the votes during the 2011 general election, making it the first GRC to be won by the opposition since the introduction of the GRC in 1988.^[1]

In the following general election in 2015, a PAP team led by Yeo Guat Kwang contested the constituency. During the vote counting, a recount was requested by the PAP team as the difference in votes between the two teams was less than two per cent of the total valid votes cast.^[2] Following the recount, Aljunied GRC's electoral result was declared last at 3.10am on 12 September with WP winning the constituency by a narrow margin of 1.9%, or a majority of 2,612.^[3]

Between 2011 and 2020, Aljunied GRC was led by Low.

In the 2020 general election, Low and Chen Show Mao declined to run for re-election;^[4]^[5] the 2020 election saw the WP team, led by WP leader Pritam Singh, retained the GRC with 59.95% of the vote, a 9% swing from the previous election.^[6]

In July 2023, a video surfaced that allegedly showed the MP for the Serangoon ward Leon Perera holding hands intimately with fellow WP member Nicole Seah. On 19 July, WP secretary-general Pritam Singh revealed that Perera and Seah began an affair some time after the 2020 general elections, which had ended before the video surfaced. Perera resigned as a Member of Parliament and as a Member of the WP on 19 July 2023 and Seah resigned from the party on 18 July 2023.^[7] After Perera's resignation, The workload for Serangoon was distributed among the other MPs in Aljunied GRC.

In August 2024, the PAP appointed Jagathishwaran Rajo and Kenny Sim to replace Chua Eng Leong and Alex Yeo respectively as the chairs of the Eunos and Paya Lebar PAP branches.^[8] The PAP again replaced three of its five current Aljunied branch chairpersons in February 2025 and appointed Dr Faisal Abdul Aziz, Daniel Liu and Adrian Ang to replaced outgoing branch chairperson, Kenny Sim, Shamsul Kamar and Victor Lye.^[9]

On 11 March 2025, the Elections Department Singapore updated the electoral divisions for the 2025 Singaporean general election. Part of the Tampines West polling districts in the east of Bedok Reservoir were moved to Tampines GRC. The number of MPs that the GRC elects did not change.^[10]

Members of Parliament

2015
Election	Division	Incumbent	Party
1988	Aljunied Kampong Kembangan Kampong Ubi	Chin Harn Tong George Yeo Wan Hussin B H Zoohri		PAP
1991	Aljunied Kampong Kembangan Kampong Ubi Paya Lebar	Chin Harn Tong George Yeo Mohamad Maidin bin Packer Mohd Ker Sin Tze
1997	Aljunied Changi-Simei Eunos Kampong Kembangan Paya Lebar	Toh See Kiat David Lim Tik En Sidek Saniff George Yeo Ker Sin Tze
2001	Aljunied-Kembangan Eunos Aljunied-Hougang Bedok Reservoir—Punggol Paya Lebar	Ong Seh Hong Zainul Abidin Yeo Guat Kwang George Yeo Cynthia Phua
2006	Serangoon Eunos Aljunied-Hougang Bedok Reservoir—Punggol Paya Lebar	Lim Hwee Hua Zainul Abidin Yeo Guat Kwang George Yeo Cynthia Phua
2011	Bedok Reservoir-Punggol Eunos Kaki Bukit Paya Lebar Serangoon	Low Thia Khiang Pritam Singh Faisal Manap Chen Show Mao Sylvia Lim		WP
2020		Gerald Giam Pritam Singh Faisal Manap Sylvia Lim Leon Perera (2020-2023)*
2025				TBD

^ Leon Perera resigned as Member of Parliament in 2023 due to an affair with party member Nicole Seah.

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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%.