MacPherson Single Member Constituency

MacPherson
MacPherson
Former Single Member constituency; for the Parliament of Singapore
Region	Central Region, Singapore
Electorate	28,513
Former constituency
Created	1968; 57 years ago; 1997; 28 years ago; 2015; 10 years ago
Abolished	1991; 34 years ago; 2011; 14 years ago; 2025; 0 years ago
Seats	1
Member(s)	Constituency abolished
Town Council	Marine Parade
Created from	Marine Parade GRC (1997, 2015)
Replaced by	Marine Parade GRC (1991, 2011); Marine Parade–Braddell Heights GRC (2025)

百度本市将拓展紧缺急需人才遴选引进范围，建立自由职业者引进通道。

The MacPherson Single Member Constituency was a single member constituency (SMC) located in the central area of Singapore. At abolition, it was managed by Marine Parade Town Council.

History

MacPherson Constituency was created for the 1968 general election.

In 1988, the constituency was renamed MacPherson Single Member Constituency with the creation of group representation constituencies (GRCs). MacPherson SMC would exist until 1991, when it was merged to Marine Parade GRC. It was reformed for the 1997 general election, with Matthias Yao, the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for the MacPherson division in Marine Parade GRC, winning 65.14% of the vote for the governing People's Action Party (PAP).^[1] In 2011, it was merged back to Marine Parade GRC as a division and reformed for the 2015 general election after one term in the GRC.

For the 2015 general election, the National Solidarity Party (NSP), which had contested Marine Parade GRC in 2011, initially planned to field a candidate against the PAP in MacPherson SMC, but decided to pull out of the contest when the Workers' Party (WP) announced its desire to contest in the constituency.^[2] The NSP later backtracked and fielded Steve Chia in the constituency, but Chia would quit citing online abuse over his participation.^[2] As a result, the party fielded Cheo Chai Chen for the contest.^[2] Hazel Poa, then the acting secretary-general of the NSP, resigned from the party, stating her disagreement with the decision of the Central Executive Committee (CEC) to contest the SMC.^[3]

During the election campaign, Cheo drew considerable criticism for telling reporters that PAP candidate Tin Pei Ling's status as a new mother was "her weakness" and saying that she might spend more time focusing on her child than on her constituents.^[4] He later claimed that he was joking.^[5] Tin, the incumbent MP for the MacPherson division in Marine Parade GRC, won the election with 65.6% of the vote, Bernard Chen from the WP took 33.6% and Cheo took just 0.8%.^[6] Cheo would forfeit his $14,500 election deposit for not winning at least 12.5% of the vote.

During the 2020 general election, Tin retained MacPherson SMC with an improved 71.74% of the vote against Goh Meng Seng, the founder and leader of the People's Power Party (PPP).^[7] This was despite a national swing against the PAP.^[8]

For the 2025 general election, the SMC was abolished and merged into Marine Parade–Braddell Heights GRC.^[9]

Members of Parliament

Election	Member	Party
Formation
1968	Chua Sian Chin		PAP
1972
1976
1980
1984
1988
Constituency abolished (1991 – 1997)
1997	Matthias Yao		PAP
2001
2006
Constituency abolished (2011 – 2015)
2015	Tin Pei Ling		PAP
2020
Constituency abolished (2025)

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 1960s

General Election 1968: MacPherson
Party		Candidate	Votes
	PAP	Chua Sian Chin	Unopposed
Registered electors			13,099
	PAP win (new seat)

Elections in 1970s

General Election 1972: MacPherson
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Chua Sian Chin	10,117	68.76	N/A
	WP	Lee Tow Kiat	4,597	31.24	N/A
Majority			5,520	37.52	N/A
Registered electors			15,637
Total valid votes			14,714	98.41
Rejected ballots			238	1.59	N/A
Turnout			14,952	95.62	N/A
	PAP hold

General Election 1976: MacPherson
Party		Candidate	Votes
	PAP	Chua Sian Chin	Unopposed
Registered electors			18,716
	PAP hold

Elections in 1980s

General Election 1980: MacPherson
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Chua Sian Chin	15,280	86.89	N/A
	United People's Front	Darus bin Shariff	2,306	13.11	N/A
Majority			12,974	73.78	N/A
Registered electors			18,997
Total valid votes			17,586	97.18
Rejected ballots			510	2.82	N/A
Turnout			18,096	95.26	N/A
	PAP hold

General Election 1984: MacPherson
Party		Candidate	Votes
	PAP	Chua Sian Chin	Unopposed
Registered electors			19,500
	PAP hold

General Election 1988: MacPherson
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PAP	Chua Sian Chin	10,453	65.98
	NSP	Kum Teng Hock	5,390	34.02
Majority			5,063	31.96
Registered electors			17,063
Total valid votes			15,843	97.81
Rejected ballots			354	2.19
Turnout			16,197	94.92
	PAP hold		Swing	2.78

Elections in 1990s

General Election 1997: MacPherson
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PAP	Matthias Yao	12,546	65.14
	SDP	Chee Soon Juan	6,713	34.86
Majority			5,833	30.28
Registered electors			20,734
Total valid votes			19,259	97.17
Rejected ballots			561	2.83
Turnout			19,820	95.59
	PAP win (new seat)

Elections in 2000s

General Election 2001: MacPherson
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Matthias Yao	16,870	83.73	18.59
	DPP	Tan Soo Phuan	3,277	16.27	N/A
Majority			13,593	67.46	37.18
Registered electors			22,010
Total valid votes			20,147	97.22	0.05
Rejected ballots			577	2.78	0.05
Turnout			20,724	94.16	1.43
	PAP hold		Swing	18.59

General Election 2006: MacPherson
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Matthias Yao	13,184	68.48	15.25
	SDA	Sin Kek Tong	6,067	31.52	N/A
Majority			7,117	36.96	30.50
Registered electors			21,041
Total valid votes			19,251
Rejected ballots			544	2.75	0.03
Turnout			19,795	94.08	0.08
	PAP hold		Swing	15.25

Elections in 2010s

General Election 2015: MacPherson
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PAP	Tin Pei Ling	17,227	65.58
	WP	Chen Jiaxi Bernard	8,826	33.60
	NSP	Cheo Chai Chen (lost deposit)	215	0.82
Majority			8,401	31.98
Registered electors			28,511
Total valid votes			26,268	98.44
Rejected ballots			415	1.56
Turnout			26,683	93.59
	PAP win (new seat)

Elections in 2020s

General Election 2020: MacPherson
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Tin Pei Ling	19,009	71.74	6.16
	PPP	Goh Meng Seng	7,489	28.26	N/A
Majority			11,520	43.48	11.50
Total valid votes			26,498	97.70	0.74
Rejected ballots			625	2.30	0.74
Turnout			27,123	95.13	1.54
Registered electors			28,513		6.86
	PAP hold		Swing	6.16

References

^ "ELD | 1997 Parliamentary General Election Results". www.eld.gov.sg. Retrieved 2025-08-14.
^ ^a ^b ^c Suparto, Idayu; Ho, Olivia (4 September 2015). "GE2015: NSP's Cheo Chai Chen slams WP as arrogant, expresses concern about its alleged financial lapses". The Straits Times. Retrieved 20 March 2025.
^ "Hazel Poa quits NSP abruptly over party's decision to contest in MacPherson". The Business Times, 20 August 2015. Archived from the original on 29 December 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
^ "Tin Pei Ling's new status as a mum is a weakness: Cheo". Archived from the original on 12 September 2015. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
^ "Tin Pei Ling delivered the best possible smackdown to NSP's Cheo Chai Chen's sexist and ageist remarks". mothership.sg. Retrieved 2025-08-14.
^ "ELD | 2015 Parliamentary General Election Results". www.eld.gov.sg. Retrieved 2025-08-14.
^ "GE2020 official results: PAP's Tin Pei Ling retains MacPherson with 71.74% of votes against PPP". The Straits Times. Singapore Press Holdings. 11 July 2020. Archived from the original on 11 July 2020. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
^ "GE2020 official results: As the opposition seizes another GRC, time for the great re-invention". The Straits Times. 11 July 2020. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 28 July 2025.
^ "Marine Parade GRC to absorb MacPherson SMC, cede parts of Chai Chee, Siglap". The Straits Times. 2025-08-14. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 2025-08-14.

[1] "ELD | 1997 Parliamentary General Election Results". www.eld.gov.sg. Retrieved 2025-08-14.

[:02-2] Suparto, Idayu; Ho, Olivia (4 September 2015). "GE2015: NSP's Cheo Chai Chen slams WP as arrogant, expresses concern about its alleged financial lapses". The Straits Times. Retrieved 20 March 2025.

[3] "Hazel Poa quits NSP abruptly over party's decision to contest in MacPherson". The Business Times, 20 August 2015. Archived from the original on 29 December 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2020.

[4] "Tin Pei Ling's new status as a mum is a weakness: Cheo". Archived from the original on 12 September 2015. Retrieved 4 September 2015.

[5] "Tin Pei Ling delivered the best possible smackdown to NSP's Cheo Chai Chen's sexist and ageist remarks". mothership.sg. Retrieved 2025-08-14.

[6] "ELD | 2015 Parliamentary General Election Results". www.eld.gov.sg. Retrieved 2025-08-14.

[7] "GE2020 official results: PAP's Tin Pei Ling retains MacPherson with 71.74% of votes against PPP". The Straits Times. Singapore Press Holdings. 11 July 2020. Archived from the original on 11 July 2020. Retrieved 11 July 2020.

[8] "GE2020 official results: As the opposition seizes another GRC, time for the great re-invention". The Straits Times. 11 July 2020. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 28 July 2025.

[9] "Marine Parade GRC to absorb MacPherson SMC, cede parts of Chai Chee, Siglap". The Straits Times. 2025-08-14. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 2025-08-14.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

龙眼和桂圆有什么区别	女同叫什么	什么的乌鸦	得了肠息肉有什么症状	孕妇吃什么容易滑胎
什么的笑	女性阴道长什么样	女生的隐私长什么样子	梅花什么时候开放	头疼吃什么
虎的贵人是什么生肖	出什么什么什么	敦促的意思是什么	双相障碍是什么	月经期间喝什么汤好
大运正官是什么意思	语字五行属什么	手为什么会脱皮	老人脚肿是什么征兆	喝咖啡对身体有什么好处

什么是善良hcv7jop6ns1r.cn	什么是体外受精hcv7jop7ns1r.cn	手麻挂什么科室hcv8jop6ns2r.cn	善对什么fenrenren.com	虎的本命佛是什么佛hcv7jop7ns1r.cn
穿斐乐的都是什么人hcv9jop6ns7r.cn	普通门诊和专家门诊有什么区别hcv8jop6ns6r.cn	牛市是什么意思helloaicloud.com	吉兆什么意思hcv7jop6ns1r.cn	耳机戴久了有什么危害hcv8jop1ns1r.cn
每天坚持跑步有什么好处hcv8jop4ns4r.cn	为什么一同房就出血aiwuzhiyu.com	双侧骶髂关节致密性骨炎是什么病jinxinzhichuang.com	阑尾炎手术后可以吃什么水果hcv7jop6ns5r.cn	经常肚子疼拉肚子是什么原因hcv9jop1ns3r.cn
胚胎和囊胚有什么区别hcv8jop5ns4r.cn	低血钾是什么原因引起的gysmod.com	六月十五号是什么星座hcv7jop5ns6r.cn	圈癣是什么引起的hcv8jop6ns3r.cn	金字旁加各念什么hcv7jop6ns1r.cn

甲状腺结节忌口什么