West Coast Group Representation Constituency

The West Coast Group Representation Constituency 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.

Group Representation Constituency
for the Parliament of Singapore
RegionSouthwestern Singapore
Electorate146,251
Current constituency
Created1997
Number of members4
Member(s)S Iswaran
Lim Hng Kiang
Foo Mee Har
Patrick Tay Teck Guan
Town CouncilWest Coast

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 was increased to five seats ahead of the 2020, after the Nanyang division of Chua Chu Kang GRC and the Jurong West section of Hong Kah North SMC were merged into the constituency.

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.

Former Minister for Trade and Industry 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 current Communication and Information Minister who is also Minister-in-charge of Trade Relations. 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

Election Division IncumbentParty
1991 PAP
Formation
1997
  • Clementi
  • Pasir Panjang
  • Telok Blangah
  • West Coast
PAP
2001
  • Boon Lay
  • Clementi
  • Pioneer
  • Telok Blangah
  • West Coast
PAP
2006
  • Boon Lay
  • Clementi
  • Pioneer
  • Telok Blangah
  • West Coast - Ayer Rajah
PAP
2011
  • Ayer Rajah
  • Boon Lay
  • Clementi
  • Telok Blangah
  • West Coast
PAP
2015
  • Ayer Rajah
  • Boon Lay
  • Telok Blangah
  • West Coast
PAP
2020
  • Ayer Rajah
  • Boon Lay
  • Nanyang
  • Telok Blangah
  • West Coast

Areas of responsibility

  • Boon Lay - Boon Lay (Blocks 174-183D, 185-191, 196A-218D, 221 (Boon Lay Shopping Centre), 237A-239B (Boon Lay Glade BTO) and 257-268C), Bulim, Bulim Bus Depot and Jurong West (Blocks 271A-276D, 617-638, 667-686, 732-739 and 743-766)
  • West Coast - West Coast Drive/Link Private Estate and Clementi West (Blks 501-520, 601-613, 701-717, 720-731 and 801A-C)
  • 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 Streets 31 and 32), Depot Road, HortPark, Southern Ridges, NUS, Dover HDB Estate, Pasir Panjang Road, PSA Building, Science Park, Kent Ridge Crescent, National University of Singapore, one-North, Rochester Mall, Star Vista and Southern Islands (Kusu Island, St John Island, Pulau Bukom and Pulau Hantu)
  • Nanyang (With effect from 2020 general election) - Jurong West (Blks 701-731, 810-866, 901-926, 928-950, 952, 953, 959-967B and 974-980), Nanyang Technological University, Yunnan Park and Yunnan Housing Estate

Candidates and Results

Elections in 2020s

Elections in 2010s

General Election 2015: West Coast GRC
Party Candidate Votes % ±
PAP S Iswaran
Lim Hng Kiang
Foo Mee Har
Patrick Tay
71,091 78.57 +11.91
Reform Kenneth Jeyaretnam
Andy Zhu
Darren Soh
Noraini Yunus
19,392 21.43 -11.91
Majority 51,699 57.1
Rejected ballots 2,415 1.83
Turnout 92,898 93.6
PAP hold Swing +23.9
General Election 2011: West Coast GRC
Party Candidate Votes % ±
PAP S Iswaran
Lim Hng Kiang
Arthur Jen Fong
Lawrence Wong
Foo Mee Har
72,563 66.66
Reform Kenneth Jeyaretnam
Andy Zhu
Frankie Low
Kumar Appavoo
Haren Hu
36,443 33.34 N/A
Majority 36,120 33.2
Turnout 111,827 92.4
PAP hold Swing N/A

Elections in 2000s

General Election 2006: West Coast GRC
Party Candidate Votes % ±
PAP S Iswaran
Lim Hng Khiang
Cedric Foo
Arthur Fong
Madeline Ho
N/A Walkover
Turnout 137,739 N/A
PAP hold Swing N/A
General Election 2001: West Coast GRC
Party Candidate Votes % ±
PAP S Iswaran
Lim Hng Khiang
Cedric Foo
Arthur Fong
Madeline Ho
N/A Walkover
Turnout 110,779 N/A
PAP hold Swing N/A

Elections in 1990s

General Election 1997: West Coast GRC
Party Candidate Votes % ±
PAP S Iswaran
Lim Hng Kiang
Bernard Chen
Wan Soon Bee
48,275 70.14
WP Mike Chan
D'Cruz Anthony
John Gan Eng Guan
Ng Teck Siong
20,550 29.86 N/A
Majority 27,725 40.2
Turnout 70,587 95.4
PAP win (new seat)

References

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