2011 Changes
On 24 February 2011, the Elections Department published the updated list of electoral divisions for the next Singapore general election which is held on 7th May 2011. There are fifteen GRCs, each with four to six seats, and 12 SMCs. The total number of contested seats is 87.
The major changes in the electoral divisions are as follows:
- New GRCs
- Moulmein-Kallang GRC - 4 MP
- Chua Chu Kang GRC - 5 MP
- Nee Soon GRC - 5 MP
- New SMCs
- Hong Kah North
- Mountbatten
- Pioneer
- Punggol East
- Radin Mas
- Sengkang West
- Whampoa
- Yuhua
- Changes in electoral seats within GRCs
- Holland-Bukit Timah GRC - five to four
- Marine Parade GRC- six to five
- Sembawang GRC - six to five
- Tanjong Pagar GRC - six to five
- Dissolved GRC
- Jalan Besar GRC
- Hong Kah GRC
- Dissolved SMC
- Chua Chu Kang (absorbed into Chua Chu Kang GRC)
- Macpherson (absorbed into Marine Parade GRC)
- Nee Soon Central (absorbed into Nee Soon GRC)
- Nee Soon East (absorbed into Nee Soon GRC)
- Yio Chu Kang (absorbed into Ang Mo Kio GRC)
- Changes in boundaries between GRCs
- Jalan Besar, Kolam Ayer, Kampong Glam division of the Jalan Besar GRC go into the newly-formed Moulmein-Kallang GRC while Kreta Ayer-Kim Seng division from the Jalan Besar GRC will be absorbed by the Tanjong Pagar GRC.
- The newly formed Nee Soon GRC which will take in voters from Nee Soon East and Nee Soon Central single divisions and parts of Sembawang and Ang Mo Kio GRCs.
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