Brickworks Group Representation Constituency

Brickworks Group Representation Constituency (Traditional Chinese: 磚廠集選區; Simplified Chinese: 砖厂集选区) is a defunct Group Representation Constituency in Bukit Merah and Queenstown, Singapore^[1] from 1988 to 1997.

Etymology

In the early days of Singapore, there was a brick factory in the Bukit Merah (Alexandra) areas and hence the name. One of the notable place in that area includes the ABC Brickworks Hawker Centre where it has different delicates to offer, located in Jalan Bukit Merah.^[2][3]

Members of Parliament

Election	Alexandra	Brickworks	Queenstown	Clementi	West Coast
1984	Alexandra SMC	Brickworks SMC	Queenstown SMC	Clementi SMC	West Coast SMC
Formation
1988	Tan Soo Khoon	Ahmad bin Mohammad Mattar	Chay Wai Chuen	Pasir Panjang GRC as Clementi, West Coast & Pasir Panjang
1991	Absorbed into Queenstown and Tanjong Pagar GRC's Telok Blangah ward			Bernard Chen	Wan Soon Bee
Dissolution
1997		Absorbed into Tanjong Pagar GRC's Queenstown ward and West Coast GRC's Pasir Panjang ward	Tanjong Pagar GRC	West Coast GRC

Areas in the past

1988: Alexandra consisting of Dover HDB estate, Alexandra Industrial Park, Tanglin Halt, Stirling Road HDB estate (including Mei Ling Street, Mei Chin Road and Queen's Close), parts of Margaret Drive and Stirling Road SIT flats, Brickworks consisting of the entire Brickworks HDB estate and Jalan Rumah Tinggi and Queenstown consisting of Margaret Drive, Commonwealth (including Commonwealth Close, Drive and Crescent), Strathmore Avenue and Dawson Road

1991: Brickworks consisting of the entire Brickworks and Dover HDB estates, Jalan Rumah Tinggi, Lengkok Bahru (except Lengkok Bahru estate), the entire Stirling Road HDB estate (including Mei Ling Street, Mei Chin Road and Queen's Close) and Pasir Panjang, Queenstown consisting of Tanglin Halt, Margaret Drive, Strathmore Avenue, Dawson Road, Forfar House and Commonwealth (including Commonwealth Close, Drive and Crescent), Clementi consisting of Sunset Way estate, Pine Grove HUDC estate and the rest of Clementi (Neighbourhoods 1, 2, 3 & 4) and West Coast consisting of West Coast estate and Clementi (Neighbourhoods 5, 6 & 7).

Candidates and results

Elections in 1990s

General Election 1991: Brickworks GRC
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Ahmad Mattar Chay Wai Chuen Chen Tien Lap Bernard Wan Soon Bee	Walkover
Turnout			101,440
	PAP hold		Swing

Elections in 1980s

General Election 1988: Brickworks GRC
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Ahmad Mattar Chay Wai Chuen Tan Soo Khoon	26,870	67.43	+0.86
	WP	J C Corera Goh Teng Hoon Ismail Yaacob	12,977	32.57	-0.86
Turnout			40,557	94.1
	PAP win (new seat)

References

1. Location of Brickworks estate in Google Earth / Maps
2. To show the existence of ABC Hawker Centre and not to promote food in this wiki article
3. There was a factory in Alexandra that bakes bricks

• 1991 General Election's result
• 1988 General Election's result
• Singapore's Electoral division map in 1997 GE
• Singapore's Electoral division map in 1991 GE
• Singapore's Electoral division map in 1988 GE
• Singapore's Electoral division map in 1984 GE