# Aljunied Group Representation Constituency

The Aljunied Group Representation Constituency is a five-member group representation constituency (GRC) in the north-eastern and eastern region of Singapore. It consists of a large part of Hougang (excluding Hougang SMC), Paya Lebar, Serangoon Gardens, the southern half of Serangoon North as well as a portion of Bedok. Parts that will be moving to Tampines GRC in 2025 include a very small section of Tampines and Paya Lebar Air Base, as there will be new developments in Paya Lebar and it will be harder to cope. The GRC consists of five divisions: Eunos, Bedok Reservoir-Punggol, Kaki Bukit, Serangoon and Paya Lebar. The current members of parliament are Gerald Giam, Pritam Singh, Muhamad Faisal Manap and Sylvia Lim from the Workers' Party (WP) after the resignation of Leon Perera.

## History

Aljunied GRC was formed in 1988 and was won by the People's Action Party (PAP). The WP team, led by WP leader Low Thia Khiang left his stronghold at Hougang SMC, made a historic breakthrough when the WP team won the election for the GRC with 54.72% of the votes during the 2011 general election, making it the first GRC to be won by the opposition since the introduction of the GRC in 1988. In the following general election in 2015, WP managed to retain the GRC with 50.96% of the votes. Between 2011 and 2020, Aljunied GRC was led by Low.
In the 2020 general election, Low and Chen Show Mao declined to run for re-election; the 2020 election saw the WP team, led by WP leader Pritam Singh, retained the GRC with 59.95% of the vote, a 9% swing from the previous election.
In July 2023, a video surfaced that allegedly showed the MP for the Serangoon ward Leon Perera holding hands intimately with fellow WP member Nicole Seah. On 19 July, WP secretary-general Pritam Singh revealed that Perera and Seah began an affair some time after the 2020 general elections, which had ended before the video surfaced. Perera resigned as a Member of Parliament and as a Member of the WP on 19 July 2023 and Seah resigned from the party on 18 July 2023. After Perera's resignation, The workload for Serangoon was distributed among the other MPs in Aljunied GRC.
In August 2024, the PAP appointed Jagathishwaran Rajo and Kenny Sim to replace Chua Eng Leong and Alex Yeo respectively as the chairs of the Eunos and Paya Lebar PAP branches. The PAP again replaced three of its five current Aljunied branch chairpersons in February 2025 and appointed Dr Faisal Abdul Aziz, Daniel Liu and Adrian Ang to replaced outgoing branch chairperson, Kenny Sim, Shamsul Kamar and Victor Lye.
On 11 March 2025, the Elections Department Singapore updated the electoral divisions for the 2025 Singaporean general election. Part of the Tampines West polling districts in the east of Bedok Reservoir were moved to Tampines GRC. The number of MPs that the GRC elects did not change.

## Members of Parliament

| Election | Division | Incumbent | Party |
| 1988 | Aljunied Kampong Kembangan Kampong Ubi | Chin Harn Tong George Yeo Wan Hussin B H Zoohri | PAP |
| 1991 | Aljunied Kampong Kembangan Kampong Ubi Paya Lebar | Chin Harn Tong George Yeo Mohamad Maidin bin Packer Mohd Ker Sin Tze | PAP |
| 1997 | Aljunied Changi-Simei Eunos Kampong Kembangan Paya Lebar | Toh See Kiat David Lim Tik En Sidek Saniff George Yeo Ker Sin Tze | PAP |
| 2001 | Aljunied-Kembangan Eunos Aljunied-Hougang Bedok Reservoir—Punggol Paya Lebar | Ong Seh Hong Zainul Abidin Yeo Guat Kwang George Yeo Cynthia Phua | PAP |
| 2006 | Serangoon Eunos Aljunied-Hougang Bedok Reservoir—Punggol Paya Lebar | Lim Hwee Hua Zainul Abidin Yeo Guat Kwang George Yeo Cynthia Phua | PAP |
| 2011 | Bedok Reservoir-Punggol Eunos Kaki Bukit Paya Lebar Serangoon | Low Thia Khiang Pritam Singh Faisal Manap Chen Show Mao Sylvia Lim | WP |
| 2015 | Bedok Reservoir-Punggol Eunos Kaki Bukit Paya Lebar Serangoon | Low Thia Khiang Pritam Singh Faisal Manap Chen Show Mao Sylvia Lim | WP |
| 2020 | Bedok Reservoir-Punggol Eunos Kaki Bukit Paya Lebar Serangoon | Gerald Giam Pritam Singh Faisal Manap Sylvia Lim Leon Perera (2020-2023)* | WP |
| 2025 | Bedok Reservoir-Punggol Eunos Kaki Bukit Paya Lebar Serangoon | | TBD |

## Electoral results
### Elections in 1980s

General Election 1988: Aljunied GRC :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | PAP | Chin Harn Tong George Yeo Wan Hussin Zoohri | 34,020 | 56.33 |
| | SDP | Jufrie Mahmood Ashleigh Seow Neo Choon Aik | 26,375 | 43.67 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 7,645 | 12.67 |
| Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | 1,197 | 1.94 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 61,592 | 94.24 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 65,351 | |
| | PAP win (new seat) | PAP win (new seat) | PAP win (new seat) | PAP win (new seat) |

### Elections in 1990s

General Election 1991: Aljunied GRC :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | PAP | Chin Harn Tong George Yeo Mohamad Maidin bin Packer Ker Sin Tze | Unopposed | Unopposed | Unopposed |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 94,490 | | |
| | PAP hold | PAP hold | PAP hold | PAP hold | PAP hold |
General Election 1997: Aljunied GRC :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | PAP | Toh See Kiat David Lim Sidek Saniff George Yeo Ker Sin Tze | 64,299 | 67.02 | N/A |
| | SDP | Aziz Ibrahim Kwan Yue Keng S. Kunalen Tay Hoon Wong Hong Toy | 31,645 | 32.98 | N/A |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 15,890 | 12.18 | N/A |
| Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | 2,971 | 3.00 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 98,915 | 95.60 | N/A |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 103,466 | | |
| | PAP hold | PAP hold | PAP hold | PAP hold | PAP hold |

### Elections in 2000s

General Election 2001: Aljunied GRC :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | PAP | Ong Seh Hong Yeo Guat Kwang George Yeo Zainul Abidin bin Mohammed Rasheed Cynthia Phua | Unopposed | Unopposed | Unopposed |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 125,115 | | |
| | PAP hold | PAP hold | PAP hold | PAP hold | PAP hold |
General Election 2006: Aljunied GRC :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | PAP | Yeo Guat Kwang George Yeo Zainul Abidin bin Mohammed Rasheed Cynthia Phua Lim Hwee Hua | 74,843 | 56.09 | N/A |
| | WP | Goh Meng Seng Sylvia Lim James Gomez Tan Wui-Hua Mohammed Rahizan Bin Yaacob | 58,593 | 43.91 | N/A |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 16,250 | 12.18 | N/A |
| Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | 2,381 | 1.75 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 135,817 | 93.58 | |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 145,141 | | |
| | PAP hold | PAP hold | PAP hold | PAP hold | PAP hold |

### Elections in 2010s

General Election 2011: Aljunied GRC :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | WP | Low Thia Khiang Sylvia Lim Chen Show Mao Pritam Singh Muhamad Faisal bin Abdul Manap | 72,289 | 54.72 | 10.81 |
| | PAP | George Yeo Lim Hwee Hua Zainul Abidin bin Mohammed Rasheed Cynthia Phua Ong Ye Kung | 59,829 | 45.28 | 10.81 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 12,460 | 9.44 | 2.74 |
| Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | 1,788 | 1.34 | 0.41 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 133,906 | 93.54 | 0.04 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 143,148 | | |
| | WP gain from PAP | WP gain from PAP | Swing | 10.81 | |
General Election 2015: Aljunied GRC :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | WP | Low Thia Khiang Pritam Singh Sylvia Lim Muhamad Faisal Manap Chen Show Mao | 70,050 | 50.96 | 3.76 |
| | PAP | Yeo Guat Kwang Victor Lye Chua Eng Leong Shamsul Kamar Murali Pillai | 67,424 | 49.04 | 3.76 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 2,626 | 1.92 | 7.52 |
| Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | 1,638 | 1.18 | 0.16 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 139,112 | 93.90 | 0.36 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 148,142 | | |
| | WP hold | WP hold | Swing | 3.76 | |

### Elections in 2020s

General Election 2020: Aljunied GRC :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | WP | Gerald Giam Pritam Singh Muhamad Faisal Manap Sylvia Lim Leon Perera | 85,815 | 59.95 | 8.99 |
| | PAP | Victor Lye Alex Yeo Chan Hui Yuh Chua Eng Leong Shamsul Kamar | 57,330 | 40.05 | 8.99 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 28,485 | 19.90 | 17.98 |
| Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | 1,582 | 1.09 | 0.09 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 144,727 | 95.96 | 2.06 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 150,821 | | |
| | WP hold | WP hold | Swing | 8.99 | |