City Constituency

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City
Former constituency
for the Legislative Council of Singapore
RegionSingapore
Electorate5,611
Former constituency
Created1951
Abolished1955
Seats1
Replaced by

City Constituency was a constituency represented in the Legislative Council of Singapore from 1951 until 1955.[1] The constituency was formed in 1951 from carving out from Municipal South-West Constituency and in 1955, it was split into Havelock, Stamford, Tanjong Pagar and Telok Ayer constituencies.

Legislative Council member[edit]

Election Member Party
1951 Nazir Ahmad Mallal PP

Elections[edit]

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 the 1950s[edit]

General Election 1951: City
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PP Nazir Ahmad Mallal 1,308 53.8
Independent Balwant Singh Bajaj 1,025 42.2
Independent Mirza Abdul Majid 96 4.0
Majority 283 11.6
Turnout 2,465 43.9
Registered electors 5,611
PP win

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Singapore Legislative Council General Election 1951". Singapore Elections. Archived from the original on 2020-07-27. Retrieved 2020-08-08.