The Bukit Panjang Single Member Constituency is a

Single Member Constituency A single-member district is an electoral district represented by a single officeholder. It contrasts with a multi-member district, which is represented by multiple officeholders. Single-member districts are also sometimes called single-winner vot ...

(SMC) located in the

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area of

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

. The current Member of Parliament for the constituency is

Liang Eng Hwa Liang Eng Hwa ( zh, s=连荣华, p=Lián Rónghuá; born 1964) is a Singaporean politician and banker. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he has been the Member of Parliament representing Bukit Panjang SMC since 2020 and pre ...

of the

People's Action Party The People's Action Party (abbreviation: PAP) is a major conservative centre-right political party in Singapore and is one of the three contemporary political parties represented in Parliament, alongside the opposition Workers' Party (WP) and ...

(PAP) .

History

The seat consists the main portion of

Bukit Panjang Bukit Panjang is a planning area and residential town located in the West Region of Singapore. A portion of this town is situated on a low-lying elongated hill. The planning area is bounded by Bukit Batok to the west, Choa Chu Kang to the ...

(Blks 101-129, 2xx and 4xx Fajar) and was reformed in the 2006 electoral boundary redraw. Bukit Panjang SMC existed from 1959 to 1991 when it was absorbed into the

Sembawang Group Representation Constituency The Sembawang Group Representation Constituency is a five-member Group Representation Constituency (GRC) located in the northern area of Singapore. The GRC consists: Sembawang Central, Sembawang West, Woodlands, Admiralty and Canberra divisions. ...

(GRC). In 2001, the seat was moved from Sembawang GRC to Holland–Bukit Panjang GRC. The 2006 redrawn boundaries carved out Bukit Panjang to form the current constituency and the GRC was renamed Holland–Bukit Timah GRC. In the

2020 Singapore general election General elections were held in Singapore on Friday, 10 July 2020 to elect 93 members to the Parliament of Singapore across 31 constituencies. Parliament was dissolved and the general election called by President Halimah Yacob on 23 June, on t ...

, PAP's Liang defeated

Singapore Democratic Party The Singapore Democratic Party (abbreviation: SDP) is a politcal party in Singapore. The party was founded on 6 August 1980 by Chiam See Tong. During the 1991 general election, Ling How Doong and Cheo Chai Chen won Bukit Gombak SMC and Nee ...

's Paul Tambyah by a narrow margin of 2,509 votes and it was the closest result in a SMC for that election.

Town Council

Bukit Panjang SMC, along with Holland-Bukit Timah GRC, is managed by the Holland–Bukit Timah Town Council.

Members of Parliament

Electoral results

Elections in 1950s

Elections in 1960s

Elections in 1970s

Elections in 1980s

Elections in 2000s

Elections in 2010s

Elections in 2020s

Historical maps

File:Bukit Panjang 1955 Singaporean GE.svg, 1955 General Election

References

External links

2020 General Election's resultParliamentary General Election results(Govtech Data)
{{Coord missing, Singapore Singaporean electoral divisions Bukit Panjang