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 delicacies 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			Bernard Chen	Wan Soon Bee
Dissolution
1997	Absorbed into Tanjong Pagar GRC Queenstown	Absorbed into Tanjong Pagar GRC's Queenstown ward and West Coast GRC's Pasir Panjang ward	Tanjong Pagar GRC	West Coast GRC

Areas of Responsibility

• Brickworks - The entire Brickworks and Dover HDB estates, Jalan Rumah Tinggi, Lengkok Bahru (except Lengkok Bahru estate), most of Stirling Road HDB estate (including Mei Ling Street, Mei Chin Road and Queen's Close, excluding Blk 165-175 and Blk 349-365 of Clementi and Pasir Panjang.
• Queenstown - Margaret Drive, Strathmore Avenue, Dawson Road, Forfar House and Commonwealth (including Commonwealth Close, Drive and Crescent).
• Clementi - Pine Grove HUDC estate and the rest of Clementi (Blks 101-118, 321-348 & 426-453), excluding Blks 201-206 & 301-320.
• West Coast - West Coast estate (Clementi Neighbourhoods 6 & 7) and West Coast Park, excluding Blks 501-520 and the West Coast private estate.

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	Ismail Yacob Goh Teng Hoon J C Corera	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