The Marine Parade–Braddell Heights Group Representation Constituency is a five-member

group representation constituency A group representation constituency (GRC) is a type of electoral division or constituency in Singapore in which teams of candidates, instead of individual candidates, compete to be elected into Parliament as the Members of Parliament (MPs) for th ...

(GRC) in the eastern region of

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. The GRC was created in March 2025 prior to the

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. The current Members of Parliament are Seah Kian Peng, Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim,

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, Diana Pang and

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from the

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(PAP).

History

The GRC was merged from various constituencies – parts of

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and Mountbatten Single Member Constituencies (SMC), the whole of MacPherson SMC and part of

Marine Parade GRC The Marine Parade Group Representation Constituency was a five-member Group Representation Constituency (GRC) located in the Central Region, Singapore, central, East Region, Singapore, eastern and North-East Region, Singapore, north-eastern are ...

. The Chai Chee HDB estates and Siglap private estates were also moved from the original

East Coast GRC The East Coast Group Representation Constituency is a five-member Group Representation Constituency (GRC) in the eastern area of Singapore. It consists of locations such as East Coast Park, Bedok, Changi (in part), Simei, Siglap, Joo Chia ...

. Prior to Nomination Day for the 2025 general election, it was widely assumed that the

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(WP) would contest in the constituency. However, during nomination day, WP did not nominate a team to contest the GRC, leading to a walkover with only PAP nominating a team, consisting of Seah Kian Peng,

Faishal Ibrahim Muhammad Faishal bin Ibrahim Khan Surattee (Jawi alphabet, Jawi: محمد فيصل إبراهيم; born 16 June 1968) is a Singaporean politician who has been serving as Ministry of Home Affairs (Singapore), Minister of State for Home Affairs ...

, and new candidates Diana Pang and

contesting. This was the first walkover in a general election since

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. WP leader

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attributed the party's reasoning to ultimately not contest in this area to limited resources as well as the extensive redrawing of electoral boundaries from the previous

. However, this move drew some criticism from several smaller opposition parties who stated that they were taken by surprise and disappointment, and that every constituency should be contested.

Members of Parliament

Electoral results

Elections in 2020s

References

{{Constituencies of Singapore Singaporean electoral divisions Marine Parade Geylang 2025 establishments in Singapore