City Constituency

City Constituency was a constituency represented in the Legislative Council of Singapore from 1951 until 1955.[1] The constituency was formed in 1951 from carving out from Municipal South-West Constituency and in 1955, it was split into Havelock, Stamford, Tanjong Pagar and Telok Ayer constituencies.

City
Former constituency
for the Legislative Council of Singapore
RegionSingapore
Electorate5,611
Former constituency
Created1951
Abolished1955
Seats1
Replaced by

Legislative Council member

Election Member Party
1951 Nazir Ahmad Mallal PP

Elections

Note : Elections Department Singapore do not include rejected votes for calculation of candidate's vote share. Hence, the total of all candidates' vote share will be 100%.

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1951: City
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PP Nazir Ahmad Mallal 1,308 53.8
Independent Balwant Singh Bajaj 1,025 42.2
Independent Mirza Abdul Majid 96 4.0
Majority 283 11.6
Turnout 2,465 43.9
Registered electors 5,611
PP win

References

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