Tang Guan Seng () is a Singaporean politician. A member of the governing

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), he was a

Member of the Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members often ...

representing

Khe Bong Single Member Constituency Khe Bong Constituency was a constituency in Singapore. It existed from 1976 to 1988 and was absorbed into Toa Payoh Group Representation Constituency Toa Payoh Group Representation Constituency (GRC) was a group representation constituency tha ...

(SMC) from 1984 to 1988,

Hougang SMC The Hougang Single Member Constituency is a single member constituency (SMC) located in the north-eastern area of Singapore. Its current Member of Parliament is Dennis Tan Lip Fong of the Workers' Party (WP). History The constituency was f ...

from 1988 to 1991 and

Ang Mo Kio Group Representation Constituency The Ang Mo Kio Group Representation Constituency is a five-member Group Representation Constituency (GRC) in the north eastern region of Singapore. The constituency encompasses the majority of Ang Mo Kio (Teck Ghee, Cheng San-Seletar, porti ...

(GRC) from 1997 to 2001.

Political career

At the 1984 Singaporean general election, Tang contested Khe Bong SMC and won the election over Sim Say Chuan of the

Barisan Sosialis Barisan Sosialis ( eng, Socialist Front) was a political party in Singapore. It was formed on 29 July 1961 and officially registered on 13 August 1961 by left-wing members of the People's Action Party (PAP) who had been expelled from the PAP. ...

with 62.53% of the vote. At the

1988 Singaporean general election General elections were held in Singapore on 3 September 1988. President of Singapore, President Wee Kim Wee dissolved parliament on 17 August 1988 on the advice of Prime Minister of Singapore, Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. The result was a victory ...

, Khe Boon SMC was absorbed in to

Toa Payoh GRC Toa Payoh Group Representation Constituency (GRC) was a group representation constituency that from 1988 to 1997 comprised Kuo Chuan, Boon Teck and Toa Payoh, in the Central Region of Singapore. The MPs of Toa Payoh GRC was Ong Teng Cheong, Da ...

and Tang contested the newly created Hougang SMC. He won the election over Lim Chiu Liang of the Workers' Party (WP) with 58.96% of the vote. At the

1991 Singaporean general election General elections were held in Singapore on 31 August 1991. President Wee Kim Wee dissolved parliament on 14 August 1991 on the advice of Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. The result was a victory for the People's Action Party, which won 77 of th ...

, Tang lost the election to

Low Thia Khiang Low Thia Khiang (; born 5 September 1956) is a Singaporean former politician who served as Secretary-General of the Workers' Party (WP) between 2001 and 2018. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hougang SMC between 1991 and 2011 and Aljun ...

of WP with 47.18% of the vote. In 1993, when

Ong Teng Cheong Ong Teng Cheong ( zh, c=王鼎昌, p=Wáng Dǐngchāng; 22 January 1936 – 8 February 2002) was a Singaporean politician who served as the fifth president of Singapore between 1993 and 1999. He was also the first elected president in Singapor ...

resigned from PAP to run in the 1993 Singaporean presidential election, Tang replaced Ong as the chairman of PAP's Kim Keat branch, as well as the Kim Keat grassroots adviser. Tang did not re-contest Hougang SMC in the 1997 Singaporean general election but joined the PAP team in

Ang Mo Kio GRC The Ang Mo Kio Group Representation Constituency is a five-member Group Representation Constituency (GRC) in the north eastern region of Singapore. The constituency encompasses the majority of Ang Mo Kio (Teck Ghee, Cheng San-Seletar, porti ...

where the team won the election unopposed. In 2004, Tang was appointed to be the political secretary to Senior Minister

Goh Chok Tong Goh Chok Tong (; born 20 May 1941) is a Singaporean former politician who served as Prime Minister of Singapore between 1990 and 2004, and Secretary-General of the People's Action Party between 1992 and 2004. He was the Member of Parliament (M ...

Personal life

Tang is married to Tan Soh Nee.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tang, Guan Seng Living people Singaporean people of Chinese descent Year of birth missing (living people)