Tampines Changkat Single Member Constituency

Tampines Changkat
Single Member constituency
for the Parliament of Singapore
RegionEast Region, Singapore
Electorate23,847
Current constituency
Created11 March 2025; 10 months ago (2025-03-11)
Seats1
PartyPeople's Action Party
MemberDesmond Choo
Town CouncilTampines
Created from

Tampines Changkat Single Member Constituency is a single-member constituency (SMC) in eastern Singapore. It is managed by Tampines Town Council. The current Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency is Desmond Choo from the governing People's Action Party (PAP).

History

Tampines Changkat SMC was established for the 2025 general election from most of the Tampines Changkat division in Tampines Group Representation Constituency (GRC) and the 42nd polling district of East Coast GRC, reducing the number of voters in Tampines GRC.[1][2][3]

In the same election, Choo, the incumbent MP for the Tampines Changkat division, contested the SMC against Kenneth Foo from the Workers' Party (WP). Choo won 56.16% of the vote.[4][5]

ICA investigation

Before the 2025 general election, an investigation by the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) was launched in relation to the SMC after it was revealed that only one voter was registered in the EC42 polling district and was supposedly living in Tampines Industrial Park A. At the same time, of the four Build-to-Order (BTO) projects in the polling district, only one had been finished, with the residents receiving their keys after the finalisation of the Registers of Electors; thus, they could not vote in the SMC. The voter also said that he did not live at his registered address, a crime punishable by a fine of up to $5000 and a jail sentence of up to 5 years.[3] However, he received a verbal advisory instead for failure to update his address, having moved out of the industrial park in 2022.[6]

Member of Parliament

Year Member Party
Formation
2025 Desmond Choo PAP

Electoral results

Note: The Elections Department does not include rejected votes when calculating the vote shares of candidates. Hence, all candidates' vote shares will total to 100% at any given election (may not appear so in multi-way contests due to rounding).

Elections in 2020s

General Election 2025[7]
Party Candidate Votes %
PAP Desmond Choo 12,476 56.16
WP Kenneth Foo 9,741 43.84
Majority 2,735 12.32
Total valid votes 22,217 99.00
Rejected ballots 224 1.00
Turnout 22,441 94.10
Registered electors 23,847
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. ^ a b "ICA investigating case of solo voter in polling district within new Tampines Changkat SMC". The Straits Times. 10 April 2025. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
  4. ^ "PAP's Desmond Choo wins Tampines Changkat SMC with 56.17% of votes over WP's Kenneth Foo". AsiaOne. 4 May 2025. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  5. ^ "ELD | 2025 Parliamentary General Election Results". www.eld.gov.sg. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  6. ^ "Sole registered voter in Tampines Changkat SMC polling district gets verbal advisory for old address". The Straits Times. 3 June 2025. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  7. ^ "Statement of Poll for the Electoral Division of Tampines Changkat" (PDF). 16 May 2025.
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