anson, constituency, confused, with, later, anson, single, member, constituency, constituency, singapore, used, exist, from, 1959, 1988, merged, into, tiong, bahru, group, representation, constituency, 1988, ansonformer, single, member, constituencyfor, parlia. Not to be confused with the later Anson Single Member Constituency Anson Constituency was a constituency in Singapore It used to exist from 1959 to 1988 and was merged into Tiong Bahru Group Representation Constituency in 1988 AnsonFormer Single Member Constituencyfor the Parliament of SingaporeRegionSingaporeFormer constituencyCreated1959Abolished1988Seats1Member s Constituency AbolishedTown CouncilTanjong PagarReplaced byRadin Mas SMCThis article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Anson Constituency news newspapers books scholar JSTOR December 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message Contents 1 Member of Parliament 2 Elections 2 1 Elections in the 1950s 2 2 Elections in the 1960s 2 3 Elections in the 1970s 2 4 Elections in the 1980s 3 ReferencesMember of Parliament EditYear Member of Parliament PartyLegislative Assembly of Singapore1959 Baharuddin bin Mohamed Ariff PAP1961 David Marshall WP1963 Govindaswamy Perumal PAPParliament of Singapore1968 Govindaswamy Perumal PAP197219761979 Devan Nair19801981 J B Jeyaretnam WP1984Elections EditElections in the 1950s Edit General Election 1959 Anson 1 Party Candidate Votes PAP Baharuddin bin Mohamed Ariff 5 167 60 7SPA Goh Kong Beng 1 875 22 0LSP Tan Cheng Chuan 1 231 14 5Independent Wong Swee Kee 117 1 4Independent Krishaan Pakirisamy 116 1 4Majority 3 292 38 7Turnout 8 608 86 8PAP win new seat Elections in the 1960s Edit By election of 15 July 1961 Anson 2 Party Candidate Votes WP David Marshall 3 598 43 3 N APAP Mahmud bin Awang 3 052 36 7 24 0SA Chee Phui Hung 1 482 17 8 4 2LSP Mohammed Ismail bin Haji Mohammed Hussain 104 1 3 13 2Singapore Congress Mohammed Ibrahim bin Mohd Kassim 69 0 8 0 8Majority 546 6 6 32 1Turnout 9 566 97 5 10 7WP gain from PAP Swing General Election 1963 Anson 3 Party Candidate Votes PAP Govindaswamy Perumal 3 957 46 9 10 2BS Chan Chong Keen 3 123 37 0 N ASA Arthur K Iasac 543 6 4 11 4Independent David Saul Marshall 416 4 9UPP V Vythalingam 306 3 6WP Chiang Seok Keong 91 1 1 42 2Majority 834 9 9Turnout 8 506 92 5PAP gain from WP Swing N AGeneral Election 1968 Anson 4 Party Candidate Votes PAP Govindaswamy Perumal UnopposedRegistered electors 8 764PAP holdElections in the 1970s Edit General Election 1972 Anson Party Candidate Votes PAP Govindaswamy Perumal 5 027 74 3 N AWP Tay Kim Oh 1 291 19 1 N AUnited National Front Paul C Kunjaraman 444 6 6 N AMajority 3 736 55 2 N ATurnout 6 899 84 4 N APAP hold Swing N AGeneral Election 1976 Anson Party Candidate Votes PAP Govindaswamy Perumal UnopposedRegistered electors 12 755PAP holdBy election 1979 Anson Party Candidate Votes PAP Devan Nair 8 127 86 2 N ADPP Johnny Wee Lai Seng 1 300 13 8 N AMajority 6 827 72 4 N ATurnout 9 694 86 2 N APAP hold Swing N AElections in the 1980s Edit General Election 1980 Anson Party Candidate Votes PAP Devan Nair 11 564 84 1 2 1United People s Front P M Thevar 2 187 15 9 N AMajority 9 377 68 2Turnout 14 224 94 3 8 1PAP hold Swing 2 1By election 1981 Anson Party Candidate Votes WP J B Jeyaretnam 7 012 51 9 51 9PAP Pang Kim Hin 6 359 47 1 37 0United People s Front Harbans Singh 131 1 0 14 9Majority 653 4 8 N ATurnout 13 746 94 7 0 3WP gain from PAP Swing N AGeneral Election 1984 Anson Party Candidate Votes WP J B Jeyaretnam 9 909 56 8 4 9PAP Ng Pock Too 7 533 43 2 3 9Majority 2 376 13 6Turnout 17 764 96 1WP hold SwingReferences Edit 1959 LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS 1961 LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY BY ELECTION RESULT 1963 LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS 1968 LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS This Singapore location article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Anson Constituency amp oldid 1126990529, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
