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	Ahmad bin Mohammad Mattar	Chay Wai Chuen	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

Areas of Responsibility

Brickworks - The entire Brickworks and Dover HDB estates, Jalan Rumah Tinggi, Lengkok Bahru (except Lengkok Bahru estate), most of Stirling Road and Queensway HDB estates (including Mei Ling Street, Mei Chin Road and Queen's Close, excluding Blk 165-175 of Stirling Road), Pasir Panjang, Singapore Polytechnic, the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Blks 349-365 of Clementi.
Queenstown - Margaret Drive, Strathmore Avenue, most HDB flats at Dawson Road (excluding the eastern portion), Forfar House and Commonwealth (including Commonwealth Close, Drive and Crescent).
Clementi - Pine Grove HUDC estate and the rest of Clementi (Blks 101-118, 321-348 & 426-453), excluding Blks 201-206 & 301-320.
West Coast - West Coast estate (Clementi Neighbourhoods 6 & 7), Blks 401-415 of Clementi Ave 1 and West Coast Park, excluding Blks 501-520 and the West Coast private estate.

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

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

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[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