The South West Community Development Council is one of five

Community Development Council The Community Development Council (CDC; ms, Majlis Pembangunan Masyarakat; zh, 社区发展理事会; ta, சமூக மேம்பாட்டு மன்றம்) is a government-led programme to organise grassroot organisations and comm ...

s (CDCs) set up across the

Republic 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, borderi ...

to aid in local administration of governmental policies and schemes. They are funded in part by the government although they are free to engage in fund-raising activities. The South West Community Development Council (CDC) was formed on 24 November 2001. Spanning the south-western region of Singapore, covering a third of its land area. The District has about 220,000 households with over 750,000 residents. The District has a characteristically high concentration of industrial estates, including the Jurong Islands and Tuas area.

Constituencies

As of March 2020, the South West district covers:

Single Member Constituency (SMC)

Bukit Batok SMC Bukit Batok Single Member Constituency (SMC) is a single member constituency in Bukit Batok of Singapore. It used to exist from 1972 to 1988 as Bukit Batok Constituency and was renamed as Bukit Batok Single Member Constituency (SMC) as part of ...

Hong Kah North SMC The Hong Kah North Single Member Constituency is a single member constituency (SMC) in the western part of Singapore. The Member of Parliament for the constituency is Amy Khor of the People's Action Party The People's Action Party (abbrevia ...

* Pioneer SMC *

Yuhua SMC The Yuhua Single Member Constituency is a single member constituency (SMC) located in the western area of Singapore. The ward covers the area of Yuhua and Parts of the Jurong Gateway District. The current Member of Parliament is Grace Fu of th ...

Group Representation Constituency (GRC)

Chua Chu Kang GRC The Chua Chu Kang Group Representation Constituency is a four-member Group Representation Constituency located in the western area of Singapore. There are four divisions of the GRC: Choa Chu Kang, Bukit Gombak, Keat Hong and Brickland. Military ...

**Brickland **Bukit Gombak **Chua Chu Kang **Keat Hong * Jurong GRC **Jurong Central **Jurong Spring **Taman Jurong **Clementi **Bukit Batok East *

West Coast GRC The West Coast Group Representation Constituency is a five-member Group Representation Constituency (GRC) located in the western area of Singapore. The five divisions consists: Ayer Rajah-Gek Poh, West Coast, Boon Lay, Nanyang and Telok Blangah ...

**Ayer Rajah-Gek Poh **Boon Lay **Nanyang **Telok Blangah **West Coast

Mayors

The incumbent Mayor of South West District is

Low Yen Ling Low Yen Ling ( zh, s=刘燕玲, p=Liú Yànlíng; born 1974) is a Singaporean politician who has been serving as Mayor of South West District since 2014, Minister of State for Culture, Community and Youth and Minister of State for Trade and Indu ...

since 2014.

References

External links

South West Community Development Council
{{Authority control Districts of Singapore Boon Lay Bukit Batok Choa Chu Kang Clementi Jurong East Bukit Merah 2001 establishments in Singapore Organizations established in 2001