Jalan Kayu Single Member Constituency

Jalan Kayu
Single Member constituency
for the Parliament of Singapore
RegionNorth-East Region, Singapore
Electorate29,628
Current constituency
Created2025; 0 years ago (2025)
Seats1
PartyPeople's Action Party
Member(s)Ng Chee Meng
Town CouncilJalan Kayu
Created fromAng Mo Kio GRC

The Jalan Kayu Single Member Constituency is a Single Member Constituency (SMC) for the Parliament of Singapore. Located in the North-East Region, it was established in 2025 after being split from Ang Mo Kio Group Representation Constituency (GRC) and was first contested at the general election that occurred in the same year. The current Member of Parliament (MP) is Ng Chee Meng from the People's Action Party (PAP).

History

Jalan Kayu SMC was established for the 2025 general election, in order to reduce the number of voters in Ang Mo Kio Group Representation Constituency (GRC), which had the most electors out of all GRCs. At establishment, Jalan Kayu SMC had 29,565 registered voters.[1][2]

The PAP announced that Ng Chee Meng would contest the newly established SMC. He had previously been a cabinet minister and MP for Pasir Ris–Punggol GRC but was defeated by the Workers' Party (WP) when running for Sengkang GRC in 2020. The WP announced Andre Low as their candidate for the constituency on nomination day. Ng would eventually defeat Low with 51.47% of the votes to 48.53%, a margin of just 809 votes, the narrowest PAP victory in the election.[3][4] As the best-performing defeated opposition candidate, he was offered a seat as a Non-constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP), which he accepted.[5]

Constituency profile

Jalan Kayu SMC consists of most of the half of Sengkang New Town west of Sungei Punggol, the entire planning area of Seletar, and uninhabited parts of the planning areas of Ang Mo Kio and Yishun. It is served by the western half of the West Loop of the Sengkang LRT line.

Members of Parliament

Year Member Party
Formation
2025 Ng Chee Meng PAP

Electoral results

Note: Elections Department Singapore do not include rejected votes for calculation of candidate's vote share. Hence, the total of all candidates' vote share will be 100%.

Elections in 2020s

General Election 2025[6]
Party Candidate Votes %
PAP Ng Chee Meng 14,146 51.47
WP Andre Low 13,337 48.53
Majority 809 2.94
Total valid votes 27,483 98.65
Rejected ballots 377 1.35
Turnout 27,860 94.03
Registered electors 29,628
PAP win (new seat)

References

  1. ^ "GE2025: Six new SMCs created as the EBRC lays out changes to constituencies". CNA. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  2. ^ "6 new SMCs for GE2025, five single seats gone". The Straits Times. 11 March 2025. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  3. ^ Theresa Tan; Sue-Ann Tan; Kimberly Kwek (4 May 2025). "GE2025: PAP's Ng Chee Meng wins Jalan Kayu with 51.47% of votes against WP candidate Andre Low". The Straits Times. Retrieved 6 May 2025.
  4. ^ Kwek, Kimberly (4 May 2025). "GE2025: Defeated WP candidate Andre Low thanks residents for support after narrow loss in Jalan Kayu". The Straits Times. Retrieved 6 May 2025.
  5. ^ "Workers' Party's Andre Low and Eileen Chong to enter parliament as Non-Constituency MPs". www.channelnewsasia.com. 19 May 2025. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
  6. ^ "Statement of Poll for the Electoral Division of Jalan Kayu" (PDF). 16 May 2025.
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