News: Singapore 2011 Electoral Boundaries - 24Feb2011

SINGAPORE: The Electoral Boundaries Review Committee report was released on Thursday at 3pm.

The committee has recommended that Singapore be carved out into 27 electoral divisions .

There will be 12 single member constituencies and 15 GRCs.

Singapore's new Parliament will now have a total of 87 members of parliament.

The Government has accepted the electoral boundary changes recommended by the report.

In a statement issued on February 24, it said the changes will be implemented at the next General Election.

There will now be 12 single member constituencies, two four-member GRCs, 11 five-member GRCs and two six-member GRCs.

The 12 single member constituencies are Bukit Panjang, Hong Kah North, Hougang, Joo Chiat, Mountbatten, Pioneer, Potong Pasir, Punggol East, Radin Mas, Sengkang West, Whampoa and Yuhua.

The two four-member GRCs are Holland-Bukit Timah and Moulmein-Kallang.

The 11 five-member GRCs are Aljunied, Bishan-Toa Payoh, Chua Chu Kang, East Coast, Jurong, Marine Parade, Nee Soon, Sembawang, Tampines, Tanjong Pagar and West Coast.

There two six-member GRCs are Ang Mo Kio and Pasir Ris-Punggol.

In a Gazette released later in the day, the GRCs where at least one of the candidates must belong to the Malay community were named as: Aljunied, Bishan-Toa Payoh, Chua Chu Kang, East Coast, Marine Parade, Moulmein-Kallang, Pasir Ris-Punggol, Sembawang and Tampines.

As for the GRCs that require one person belonging to the Indian or other minority communities, they are: Ang Mo Kio, Holland-Bukit Timah, Jurong, Nee Soon, Tanjong Pagar and West Coast.

For the 2006 General Election, the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee report was released about seven weeks before nomination day.

- CNA/fa/sf

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