Bukit Merah Single Member Constituency

Bukit Merah Single Member Constituency was a constituency in Singapore. It existed from 1959 to 1997, when it was merged with Leng Kee division of the Tanjong Pagar GRC.

General Election 1991: Bukit Merah
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	PAP	Ch'ng Jit Koon	6,878	61.9	-7.9
	WP	Gopalan Nair Pallichadath	4,046	36.4	+6.2
	Independent	Patrick Leong Siew Choong	181	1.6
Majority			2,832	39.6
Turnout			11,298	94.2	+1.0
	PAP hold		Swing	-7.9

General Election 1988: Bukit Merah
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PAP	Lim Chee Onn	9,414	69.8
	WP	Pok Lee Chuen	4,077	30.2
Majority			5,337	39.6
Turnout			13,721	93.2
	PAP hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1984: Bukit Merah
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PAP	Lim Chee Onn	uncontested
Majority
Turnout
	PAP hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1980: Bukit Merah
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PAP	Lim Chee Onn	uncontested
Majority
Turnout
	PAP hold		Swing	N/A

By-election, 23 July 1977: Bukit Merah
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	PAP	Lim Chee Onn	11,625	72.2	-4.2
	BS	Lee Siew Choh	4,473	27.8	+27.8
Majority			7,152	44.4	-8.4
Turnout			16,482	97.0	+0.1
	PAP hold		Swing	-4.2

General Election 1976: Bukit Merah
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	PAP	Lim Guan Hoo	12,775	76.4	+7.1
	UF	Wong Kui Yu	3,952	23.6
Majority			8,823	52.8
Turnout			16,994	96.9	+1.9
	PAP hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1972: Bukit Merah
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PAP	Lim Guan Hoo	9,044	69.3
	WP	Kho Jiak Hong	2,042	15.7
	BS	Said bin Jali	1,958	15.0
Majority			7,002	53.6
Turnout			13,265	95.0
	PAP hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1968: Bukit Merah
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PAP	Lim Guan Hoo	uncontested
Majority
Turnout
	PAP hold		Swing	N/A

By-election 18 January 1966: Bukit Merah
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	PAP	Lim Guan Hoo	9,082	82.9	+43.9
	Independent	Madai Puthan Damodaran Nair	1,868	17.1	NA
Majority			7,214	65.8	N/A
Turnout			11,346	85.9	-9.8
	PAP gain from BS		Swing	N/A

General Election 1963: Bukit Merah
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BS	Lim Huan Boon	4,963	42.8
	PAP	Sellappa Ramaswamy	4,520	39.0	-20.1
	UPP	Poon Weng Ying	1,129	9.7
	SA	Shums Tung Tao Chang	740	6.4	-23.8
	Independent	Ngoh Eng Kok	232	2.0
Majority			443	3.8
Turnout			11,694	95.7
	BS gain from PAP		Swing

General Election 1959: Bukit Merah
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	PAP	Sellappa Ramaswamy	5,922	59.1
	SPA	Teo Cheng Hye	3,026	30.2
	Independent	Lee Choon Eng	1,073	10.7
Majority			2,896	28.9	N/A
Turnout			10,146	89.9
	PAP win (new seat)

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