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[Hypocrite-The]

West coast GRC is nearly 80 for the pap....I really wonder if it's even a worthwhile endeavour for ah bock

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West Coast Group Representation Constituency
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.

West Coast
Group Representation Constituency
for the Parliament of Singapore
West Coast GRC locator map.svg
Region
Southwestern Singapore
Electorate
99,300
Current constituency
Created
1997
Number of members
4
Member(s)
S Iswaran
Lim Hng Kiang
Foo Mee Har
Patrick Tay Teck Guan
Town Council
West Coast
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. In 2011, Cedric Foo's Pioneer ward was crafted out a single member constituency, while the Jurong Industrial, Jurong Island and Tuas had been absorbed into Ayer Rajah's constituency. In 2015, the GRC was downsized to four members after the Clementi division was transferred to the nearby Jurong GRC.

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. A team of Reform Party of Singapore, led by secretary-general Kenneth Jeyaretnam, have challenged the People's Action Party incumbents in this GRC for the first time in the 2011 elections, and again in 2015.

Former Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang was the anchor minister of the GRC until his retirement from the cabinet in 2018. Since 2011, the GRC has been led by Lim and S Iswaran, who is the Communication and Information and Minister-in-charge of Trade Relations. From 2011 to 2015, Lawrence Wong was also the semi-anchor minister of West Coast GRC, before moving to Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC.

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

Members of Parliament Edit
Election Ayer Rajah Boon Lay Clementi Pioneer Telok Blangah West Coast Pasir Panjang
1991 SMC SMC Brickworks GRC Tanjong Pagar GRC Brickworks GRC
as Brickworks & West Coast
Formation
1997 SMC SMC Bernard Chen Tien Lap Carved from Jurong from Bukit Timah GRC Lim Hng Kiang S Iswaran Wan Soon Bee
2001 Ho Geok Choo Madeleine Arthur Jen Fong Cedric Foo Absorbed into West Coast, Telok Blangah & Clementi
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 Edit
Boon Lay - Boon Lay (Blks 167-221 and 257-268) and Jurong West (617-638 and 665-682)
West Coast - West Coast Drive/Link Private Estate and Clementi (Blks 5xx to 7xx)
Ayer Rajah - Teban Gardens, Pandan Gardens, Pandan Reservoir, Tuas, south of Pasir Laba, Raffles Golf Course, Tuas South, Shipyard, Benoi and Gul Circle
Telok Blangah - VivoCity, HarbourFront Centre, Resorts World Sentosa, Sentosa, Keppel Club, Tanjong Berlayar, Telok Blangah (Drive/Heights, and Streets 31,32), Depot Road, HortPark, Southern Ridges, NUS, Dover HDB Estate, Pasir Panjang Road, PSA Building, Science Park, Kent Ridge Crescent, National University of Singapore, one-North, Rochester Mall, Star Vista and Southern Islands (Kusu Island, St John Island, Pulau Bukom, Pulau Hantu)
Candidates and Results Edit
Elections in 2010s Edit
General Election 2015: West Coast GRC
Party Candidate Votes % ±
PAP S Iswaran
Lim Hng Kiang
Foo Mee Har
Patrick Tay 71,091 78.57 +11.91
Reform Kenneth Jeyaretnam
Andy Zhu
Darran Soh
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 S Iswaran
Lim Hng Kiang
Arthur Jen Fong
Lawrence Wong
Foo Mee Har 72,563 66.66
Reform Kenneth Jeyaretnam
Andy Zhu
Frankie Low
Kumar Appavoo
Haren Hu 36,443 33.34 N/A
Majority 36,120 33.2
Turnout 111,827 92.4
PAP hold Swing N/A
Elections in 2000s Edit
General Election 2006: West Coast GRC
Party Candidate Votes % ±
PAP S Iswaran
Lim Hng Khiang
Cedric Foo
Arthur Fong
Madeline Ho N/A Walkover
Turnout 137,739 N/A
PAP hold Swing N/A
General Election 2001: West Coast GRC
Party Candidate Votes % ±
PAP S Iswaran
Lim Hng Khiang
Cedric Foo
Arthur Fong
Madeline Ho N/A Walkover
Turnout 110,779 N/A
PAP hold Swing N/A
Elections in 1990s Edit
General Election 1997: West Coast GRC
Party Candidate Votes % ±
PAP S Iswaran
Lim Hng Kiang
Bernard Chen
Wan Soon Bee 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
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[rotiprata]

ah Bock old seat in now in West coast. The problem is west coast is damn pro pap. .... I think ah bock no chance lah

you're right... TCB will stand no chance at WC.. hope he doesn't let his "under dog fighter ego" get the better of him.... TP-Bishan will be good ... CST.. potong pasir is there..

 

[Hypocrite-The]

you're right... TCB will stand no chance at WC.. hope he doesn't let his "under dog fighter ego" get the better of him.... TP-Bishan will be good ... CST.. potong pasir is there..

Hopefully ah bock has something up his sleeve...he has plenty of connections etc....he might know something the lay person don't. Don't forget that his planned meeting with ah Yang was in West coast. It was all plain to see...

 

[rotiprata]

Hopefully ah bock has something up his sleeve...he has plenty of connections etc....he might know something the lay person don't. Don't forget that his planned meeting with ah Yang was in West coast. It was all plain to see...

yes.. TCB is an old fox... he can read the ground well.... only way to stop him... the registary delay his application... PAP call for snap election after CNY..

 

[Hypocrite-The]

yes.. TCB is an old fox... he can read the ground well.... only way to stop him... the registary delay his application... PAP call for snap election after CNY..

If the registry delay. He can join other party n contest. I think SDP's or ah thean party or ah pui party or ice cream party will welcome him with open arms. Just my 2 cents but for the sake of singkies n to do the better thing, ah bock should take over ah chiam party...ah chiam n wife should step down etc. Pointless to have another party as too many chefs spoil the broth.

 

[Sideswipe]

seems that there are high expectations for TCB. his party and allies can contest the west and proximity, WP east and proximity. contest all the seats again.

 

[borom]

Very hard to be great again after the mess left behind by the PAP.
First thing is to open investigation into all these cases of negligence and yet not punished eg death in hospitals, billion dollars loses by sovereign funds ect2, close down of the PA, reduction in foreign immigrants ect2/
Long list of things to unwind

 

[3_M]

West coast GRC is nearly 80 for the pap....I really wonder if it's even a worthwhile endeavour for ah bock

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West Coast Group Representation Constituency
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.

West Coast
Group Representation Constituency
for the Parliament of Singapore
West Coast GRC locator map.svg
Region
Southwestern Singapore
Electorate
99,300
Current constituency
Created
1997
Number of members
4
Member(s)
S Iswaran
Lim Hng Kiang
Foo Mee Har
Patrick Tay Teck Guan
Town Council
West Coast
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. In 2011, Cedric Foo's Pioneer ward was crafted out a single member constituency, while the Jurong Industrial, Jurong Island and Tuas had been absorbed into Ayer Rajah's constituency. In 2015, the GRC was downsized to four members after the Clementi division was transferred to the nearby Jurong GRC.

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. A team of Reform Party of Singapore, led by secretary-general Kenneth Jeyaretnam, have challenged the People's Action Party incumbents in this GRC for the first time in the 2011 elections, and again in 2015.

Former Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang was the anchor minister of the GRC until his retirement from the cabinet in 2018. Since 2011, the GRC has been led by Lim and S Iswaran, who is the Communication and Information and Minister-in-charge of Trade Relations. From 2011 to 2015, Lawrence Wong was also the semi-anchor minister of West Coast GRC, before moving to Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC.

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

Members of Parliament Edit
Election Ayer Rajah Boon Lay Clementi Pioneer Telok Blangah West Coast Pasir Panjang
1991 SMC SMC Brickworks GRC Tanjong Pagar GRC Brickworks GRC
as Brickworks & West Coast
Formation
1997 SMC SMC Bernard Chen Tien Lap Carved from Jurong from Bukit Timah GRC Lim Hng Kiang S Iswaran Wan Soon Bee
2001 Ho Geok Choo Madeleine Arthur Jen Fong Cedric Foo Absorbed into West Coast, Telok Blangah & Clementi
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 Edit
Boon Lay - Boon Lay (Blks 167-221 and 257-268) and Jurong West (617-638 and 665-682)
West Coast - West Coast Drive/Link Private Estate and Clementi (Blks 5xx to 7xx)
Ayer Rajah - Teban Gardens, Pandan Gardens, Pandan Reservoir, Tuas, south of Pasir Laba, Raffles Golf Course, Tuas South, Shipyard, Benoi and Gul Circle
Telok Blangah - VivoCity, HarbourFront Centre, Resorts World Sentosa, Sentosa, Keppel Club, Tanjong Berlayar, Telok Blangah (Drive/Heights, and Streets 31,32), Depot Road, HortPark, Southern Ridges, NUS, Dover HDB Estate, Pasir Panjang Road, PSA Building, Science Park, Kent Ridge Crescent, National University of Singapore, one-North, Rochester Mall, Star Vista and Southern Islands (Kusu Island, St John Island, Pulau Bukom, Pulau Hantu)
Candidates and Results Edit
Elections in 2010s Edit
General Election 2015: West Coast GRC
Party Candidate Votes % ±
PAP S Iswaran
Lim Hng Kiang
Foo Mee Har
Patrick Tay 71,091 78.57 +11.91
Reform Kenneth Jeyaretnam
Andy Zhu
Darran Soh
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 S Iswaran
Lim Hng Kiang
Arthur Jen Fong
Lawrence Wong
Foo Mee Har 72,563 66.66
Reform Kenneth Jeyaretnam
Andy Zhu
Frankie Low
Kumar Appavoo
Haren Hu 36,443 33.34 N/A
Majority 36,120 33.2
Turnout 111,827 92.4
PAP hold Swing N/A
Elections in 2000s Edit
General Election 2006: West Coast GRC
Party Candidate Votes % ±
PAP S Iswaran
Lim Hng Khiang
Cedric Foo
Arthur Fong
Madeline Ho N/A Walkover
Turnout 137,739 N/A
PAP hold Swing N/A
General Election 2001: West Coast GRC
Party Candidate Votes % ±
PAP S Iswaran
Lim Hng Khiang
Cedric Foo
Arthur Fong
Madeline Ho N/A Walkover
Turnout 110,779 N/A
PAP hold Swing N/A
Elections in 1990s Edit
General Election 1997: West Coast GRC
Party Candidate Votes % ±
PAP S Iswaran
Lim Hng Kiang
Bernard Chen
Wan Soon Bee 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
Last edited 16 days ago by Graeme Bartlett
RELATED ARTICLES
Teban Gardens
Subzone of Jurong East Planning Area & , Housing Estate in Singapore

List of Singaporean electoral divisions (1980–84)
Wikimedia list article

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It more due to the popularity of tharman and his opponent was( and is still) a 4th rated opposition who hardly did any ground work. The end result was expected, RP can only appeals to the diehard opposition supporters.

Tcb and his team would likely have a broader base support. He is be able to appeal to the fence sitters, opposition voters, opposition sympathisers and even slice away some of the pap and grassroots voters.
On the Marco , the passing of lky helped to bring in a lot of sympathy votes last GE.

On the personality front, It would be a tough fight. Tharman had the advantage as he is current whereas tcb had already retired long ago. Only the older voters fondly remember him. But on the national front, tcb did not disappeared. He has constantly maintain his exposure.

Tcb would likely contest in his old ward.

Whether these factors are enough to win over 50% remains to be seen.But I definitely expect better performance from PSP.

 

[Robert Half]

seems that there are high expectations for TCB. his party and allies can contest the west and proximity, WP east and proximity. contest all the seats again.

Let dun forget that WP still has 6 seats and the rest of the oppies has nothing.

WP is still very important to an average sinkie

 

[glockman]

Let dun forget that WP still has 6 seats and the rest of the oppies has nothing.

WP is still very important to an average sinkie

WP will always be like bread and butter to sinkies. But I believe sinkies now want a club sandwich, with a side order of french fries.

 

[glockman]

Yes. Just like in the US. Donald Trump great as he is. He needed the enlightened American people to vote him in.

Here in lies the problem - daft sinkies. The majority is always doing in the rest, and we all get the government we deserve.

 

[Robert Half]

WP will always be like bread and butter to sinkies. But I believe sinkies now want a club sandwich, with a side order of french fries.

That right bro ... the WP trio managed to raise about $1 mil for their recent lawsuits.

That showed that sinkie did not forsake them

 

[3_M]

When gct took a jab at his friend tcb 2 weeks back, he must had gotten info on tcb intention. GCT is drawing the line with TCB. People who are still hoping GCT to jump ship can jolly well forget it.

What will interesting is how many will crossover from pap to psp?

 

[Hypocrite-The]

It more due to the popularity of tharman and his opponent was( and is still) a 4th rated opposition who hardly did any ground work. The end result was expected, RP can only appeals to the diehard opposition supporters.

Tcb and his team would likely have a broader base support. He is be able to appeal to the fence sitters, opposition voters, opposition sympathisers and even slice away some of the pap and grassroots voters.
On the Marco , the passing of lky helped to bring in a lot of sympathy votes last GE.

On the personality front, It would be a tough fight. Tharman had the advantage as he is current whereas tcb had already retired long ago. Only the older voters fondly remember him. But on the national front, tcb did not disappeared. He has constantly maintain his exposure.

Tcb would likely contest in his old ward.

Whether these factors are enough to win over 50% remains to be seen.But I definitely expect better performance from PSP.

Tartman is no longer in the pap cec which means he will have to step down. Bcos pinky does not want competition... however bcos of ah bock, those plans might be thrown into the fire bcos tartman is popular. So if pinky retains tartman...she position herself to be taken over by tartman. If she gets rid of tartman...she provides ah bock with an opportunity to win.

 

[jw5]

Whether you like WP or not, there is a fairly large percentage of voters who will only vote WP among all the opposition parties. If another opposition party takes on the PAP in their constituency, they will either spoil vote or not turn up at the polls. It wouldn't surprise me if they even voted PAP, i.e. their voting preference is WP, then PAP, then another opposition party.

Let dun forget that WP still has 6 seats and the rest of the oppies has nothing.

WP is still very important to an average sinkie

 

[jw5]

Frankly, GCT is the last person I'm hoping will jump ship. Ok, maybe second last, the last is LHL.

When gct took a jab at his friend tcb 2 weeks back, he must had gotten info on tcb intention. GCT is drawing the line with TCB. People who are still hoping GCT to jump ship can jolly well forget it.

What will interesting is how many will crossover from pap to psp?

 

[rotiprata]

That right bro ... the WP trio managed to raise about $1 mil for their recent lawsuits.
That showed that sinkie did not forsake them

me thinking not the same.... many of those who donated are not to show support to the WP.... but to show to the other party
just compare WP results at AJH 2011 and 2015... the signs are oredi there.

 

[KuanTi01]

Wooden is so comfy as a self-appointed elder PAP statesman and he has wriiten some crap books extolling his own virtues.lol.If he jumps ship,I jump tua ya peh !

 

[Robert Half]

me thinking not the same.... many of those who donated are not to show support to the WP.... but to show to the other party
just compare WP results at AJH 2011 and 2015... the signs are oredi there.

Then again from 2015 till now 2019 about 4 years. Basic living and mindset of an average sinkie may have changed. It’s very hard to tell

 

[pck1965]

Here in lies the problem - daft sinkies. The majority is always doing in the rest, and we all get the government we deserve.

Dont forget the opening of the floodgates to import more CECA ah neh shitskins whose sinkie shitizenships may be revoked and whose village folks may be left stranded in their keling villages if PAPies dont get elected. These smelly bastards no doubt would love to vote for CAQ's party.

With little effective opposition and censored media and a lot of new citizens, its no surprise that PAPpies won. It's a surprise that PAPpies had a scare in 2011. The last election was a freak result due to LKY's death and too many new citizens in the mix.

Unless this scourge of CECA is revoked, there is no hope at all for sinkies.