Kaki Bukit Constituency

Kaki Bukit Constituency was a single member constituency (SMC) in Bedok, Singapore; carved from Kampong Chai Chee division in prior to 1980 elections and was absorbed into the Eunos GRC on 1988 elections.

Kampong Kembangan
Single Member constituency
for the Parliament of Singapore
RegionSingapore
Current constituency
Created1980
Seats1
Member(s)Constituency Abolished
Replaced byAljuined GRC

In 1984, Tan Chee Kien was offered the non-constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP) seat [1] after Madai Puthan Damodaran Nair, a Workers' Party candidate in Jalan Kayu Constituency had declined the offered NCMP seat.[2] Tan declined the seat as well.

Member of Parliament
Year Member of Parliament Party
1980 Saidi Shariff PAP
1984 Chew Heng Ching

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 1980s
General Election 1980: Kaki Bukit
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PAP Saidi Shariff 14,550 72.32
PKMS Ibrahim bin Ariff 4,072 20.24
United People's Front Atim bin Ismail 1,496 7.44
Turnout 20,666 96.9
PAP win (new seat)
General Election 1984: Kaki Bukit
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PAP Chew Heng Ching 10,229 52.28 -20.04
DPP Tan Chee Kien 9,336 47.72 +47.32
Turnout 16,764 96.4 -20.04
PAP hold Swing -7.21

References
  1. Kaki Bukit's SUF candidate was offered first auxiliary NCMP seat but declined as well. Archived 2011-05-29 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Jalan Kayu's WP candidate was offered first NCMP seat. Archived 2011-05-29 at the Wayback Machine
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