West Coast Group Representation Constituency

West Coast
Group Representation Constituency for the Parliament of Singapore
Region	Southwestern Singapore
Electorate	99,300
Current constituency
Created	1997
Number of members	4
Member(s)	S Iswaran Lim Hng Kiang Foo Mee Har Patrick Tay Teck Guan
Town Council	West Coast

West Coast Group Representation Constituency (Chinese: 西海岸集选区; Malay: Kawasan Undi Perwakilan Berkumpulan West Coast; Tamil: வெஸ்ட் கோஸ்ட் குழுத்தொகுதி) is a four-member Group Representation Constituency located in the western area of Singapore. The GRC is divided into four divisions and is a constituency held by the People's Action Party. The four divisions are Ayer Rajah, West Coast, Boon Lay, and Telok Blangah. West Coast GRC covers the areas of Ayer Rajah, Dover, Pasir Panjang, the south-western area, West Coast, Jurong, Jurong Island, Sentosa, Telok Blangah, Tuas and much of Singapore's southern & western territorial waters of the country.

The constituency was a four-member GRC in 1997 and was expanded to five, when it was expanded to include the areas of the now defunct Boon Lay Single Member Constituency and the Jurong area of Bukit Timah Group Representation Constituency. In 2006, West Coast again absorbed Ayer Rajah Single Member Constituency and merged with Minister of State's S Iswaran's West Coast seat to form the Ayer Rajah-West Coast division. In 2011, Cedric Foo's Pioneer ward was crafted out a single member constituency, while the Jurong Industrial, Jurong Island and Tuas had been absorbed into Ayer Rajah's constituency. In 2015, the GRC was downsized to four members after the Clementi division was transferred to the nearby Jurong GRC.

The constituency faced a contest against the Workers' Party in the 1997 general election. Since then, the constituency has received walkovers in the 2001 and 2006 general elections. A team of Reform Party of Singapore, led by secretary-general Kenneth Jeyaretnam, have challenged the People's Action Party incumbents in this GRC for the first time in the 2011 elections, and again in 2015.

Lim Hng Kiang was the anchor minister of the GRC until his retirement from the cabinet in 2018. Since 2011, the GRC has been led by Lim and S Iswaran, who is the Minister for Trade and Industry (Trade) and Communication and Information. From 2011 to 2015, Lawrence Wong was also the semi-anchor minister of West Coast GRC, before moving to Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC.

West Coast GRC's capital and town council head office are located at Clementi.

Members of Parliament

Areas of responsibility

• Boon Lay - Boon Lay (Blks 167-221 and 257-268) and Jurong West (617-638 and 665-682)
• West Coast - West Coast Drive/Link Private Estate and Clementi (Blks 5xx to 7xx)
• Ayer Rajah - Teban Gardens, Pandan Gardens, Pandan Reservoir, Tuas, south of Pasir Laba, Raffles Golf Course, Tuas South, Shipyard, Benoi and Gul Circle
• Telok Blangah - VivoCity, HarbourFront Centre, Resorts World Sentosa, Sentosa, Keppel Club, Tanjong Berlayar, Telok Blangah (Drive/Heights, and St 31,32), Depot Road, HortPark, Southern Ridges, NUS, Dover HDB Estate, Pasir Panjang Road, PSA Building, Science Park, Kent Ridge Crescent,NUS , one-North ,Rochester Mall and Star Vista + Southern Islands (Kusu Island, St John Island, Pulau Bukom , Pulau Hantu Etc.)

Candidates and Results

References

• 2011 General Election's result
• 2006 General Election's result
• 2001 General Election's result
• 1997 General Election's result