
Hougang Single Member
Constituency.
Hougang Single Member
Constituency (Hougang SMC) (Traditional Chinese:
後港單選區;Simplified
Chinese: 后港单选区) is a Single Member Constituency whose
borders roughly enclose the town of Hougang
, located in
the north-eastern area
of Singapore
. The boundary includes a portion of Hougang
and is an
opposition held seat with its Member of Parliament the Workers' Party's Low Thia Khiang. The constituency was
formed in 1988 and was held by the
People's Action Party (PAP) until the
1991 general
election, when the ruling party lost the seat to the Workers'
Party. The seat is one of the two opposition seats of the
Parliament of Singapore in the
country. Despite Singapore's current
dominant-party system, Hougang SMC has
been difficult to recapture by the PAP since losing the
constituency in 1991.
Members of Parliament
Candidates and results
| Election |
Seats |
Voters |
Party |
Candidate(s) |
Votes |
Votes % |
|
Hougang Single Member
Constituency
|
| Singapore general election,
1988 |
1 |
21,703 |
PAP |
Tang Guan Seng |
11,983 |
59.0 |
| WP |
Lim Chiu Liang |
8,342 |
41.0 |
| Singapore general election,
1991 |
1 |
21,476 |
PAP |
Tang Guan Seng |
9,487 |
47.2 |
| WP |
Low Thia Khiang |
10,621 |
52.8 |
| Singapore general election,
1997 |
1 |
24,423 |
PAP |
Heng Chee How |
9,736 |
42.0 |
| WP |
Low Thia Khiang |
13,458 |
58.0 |
| Singapore general election,
2001 |
1 |
23,320 |
PAP |
Eric Low Siak Meng |
9,882 |
45.0 |
| WP |
Low Thia Khiang |
12,070 |
55.0 |
| Singapore general election,
2006 |
1 |
23,741 |
PAP |
Eric Low Siak Meng |
8,308 |
37.26 |
| WP |
Low Thia Khiang |
13,989 |
62.74 |