West Coast Group Representation Constituency

West Coast
Group Representation Constituency for the Parliament of Singapore
Region	Southwestern Singapore
Electorate	99,300
Current constituency
Created	1997
Number of members	4
Member(s)	Foo Mee Har Lim Hng Kiang S Iswaran Patrick Tay Teck Guan
Town Council	West Coast

West Coast Group Representation Constituency (Chinese: 西海岸集选区; Malay: Kawasan Undi Perwakilan Berkumpulan West Coast; Tamil: வெஸ்ட் கோஸ்ட் குழுத்தொகுதி) is a four-member Group Representation Constituency located in the western area of Singapore. The GRC is divided into four divisions and is a constituency held by the People's Action Party. The four divisions are Ayer Rajah, West Coast, Boon Lay, and Telok Blangah. West Coast GRC covers the areas of Ayer Rajah, Dover, Pasir Panjang, the south-western area, West Coast, Jurong, Jurong Island, Sentosa, Telok Blangah, Tuas and much of Singapore's southern & western territorial waters of the country.

Formed in 1997, West Coast GRC is led by Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang. The constituency faced a contest against the Workers' Party in the 1997 general election. Since then, the constituency has received walkovers in the 2001 and 2006 general elections.

The constituency was a four-member GRC in 1997 and was expanded to five, when it was expanded to include the areas of the now defunct Boon Lay Single Member Constituency and the Jurong area of Bukit Timah Group Representation Constituency. In 2006, West Coast again absorbed Ayer Rajah Single Member Constituency and merged with Minister of State's S Iswaran's West Coast seat to form the Ayer Rajah-West Coast division. Cedric Foo's Pioneer ward was crafted out a single member constituency after the 2011 election.

Five candidates of the Reform Party of Singapore, including Kenneth Jeyaretnam, have challenged the People's Action Party incumbents in this GRC for the first time in the General Election 2011.

In 2015, West Coast GRC was downsized to four members, and it was contested again by candidates from the Reform Party during the 2015 general election.

West Coast GRC's capital and town council head office are located at Clementi.

Members of Parliament

Election	Ayer Rajah	Boon Lay	Clementi	Pioneer	Telok Blangah	West Coast	Pasir Panjang
1991	SMC	SMC	Brickworks GRC		Tanjong Pagar GRC	Brickworks GRC as West Coast
Formation
1997	SMC	SMC	Bernard Chen Tien Lap	Carved from Boon Lay SMC & Bukit Timah GRC (Jurong)	Lim Hng Kiang	S Iswaran	Wan Soon Bee
2001		Ho Geok Choo Madeleine	Arthur Jen Fong	Cedric Foo			Absorbed into West Coast
2006	Merged into West Coast as Ayer Rajah-West Coast					S Iswaran as Ayer Rajah-West Coast
2011	Foo Mee Har	Lawrence Wong		SMC		S Iswaran
2015		Patrick Tay Teck Guan	Jurong GRC

Areas of responsibility

• Boon Lay - Blocks 167 - 220 of Boon Lay/Jurong West Estate, some parts of Blocks 6xx of the Jurong West Estate
• West Coast - Blocks 5xx to 7xx of the Clementi New Town (Clementi West) and west coast drive/link private estate
• Ayer Rajah - Teban Gardens, Pandan Gardens , Pandan Reservoir , Jurong Port, Jurong Pier, Jurong Hill, Tuas, south of Pasir Laba, Raffles Golf Course, Tuas South, Shipyard, Benoi and Gul Crescent
• Telok Blangah - VivoCity, HarbourFront Centre, Resorts World Sentosa, Sentosa, Keppel Club, Tanjong Berlayar, the entire Telok Blangah HDB flats, Blangah Rise Primary School, HortPark, Southern Ridges, Dover HDB Estate, Prince George's Park, Kent Ridge Crescent, one-North, Rochester Mall and Star Vista

Candidates and Results

Elections in 2010s

General Election 2015: West Coast GRC
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Patrick Tay S Iswaran Lim Hng Kiang Foo Mee Har	71,091	78.57	+11.91
	Reform	Kenneth Jeyaretnam Darren Soh Andy Zhu Noraini Yunus	19,392	21.43	-11.91
Majority			51,699	57.1
Rejected ballots			2,415	1.83
Turnout			92,898	93.6
	PAP hold		Swing	+23.9

General Election 2011: West Coast GRC
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Arthur Jen Fong S Iswaran Lim Hng Kiang Foo Mee Har Lawrence Wong	72,563	66.66
	Reform	Kenneth Jeyaretnam Frankie Low Andy Zhu Kumar Appavoo Ho Soak Harn	36,443	33.34	N/A
Majority			36,120	33.2
Turnout			111,827	92.4
	PAP hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in 2000s

General Election 2006: West Coast GRC
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Arthur Jen Fong Foo Chee Keng Cedric Ho Geok Choo Madeleine S Iswaran Lim Hng Kiang	N/A	Walkover
Turnout			137,739		N/A
	PAP hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 2001: West Coast GRC
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Arthur Jen Fong Foo Chee Keng Cedric Ho Geok Choo Madeleine S Iswaran Lim Hng Kiang	N/A	Walkover
Turnout			110,779		N/A
	PAP hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in 1990s

General Election 1997: West Coast GRC
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Chen Tian Lap Bernard Wan Soon Bee Lim Hng Kiang S Iswaran	48,275	70.14
	WP	Mike Chan D'Cruz Anthony John Gan Eng Guan Ng Teck Siong	20,550	29.86	N/A
Majority			27,725	40.2
Turnout			70,587	95.4
	PAP win (new seat)

References

• 2011 General Election's result
• 2006 General Election's result
• 2001 General Election's result
• 1997 General Election's result