Marine Parade Constituency

Not to be confused with Marine Parade Group Representation Constituency.

Marine Parade
Single Member constituency for the Parliament of Singapore
Region	Singapore
Current constituency
Created	1976
Seats	1
Member	Constituency Abolished
Town Council	Marine Parade
Replaced by	Marine Parade GRC

Marine Parade Constituency was a single-member constituency in Marine Parade, Singapore. It was formed in 1976 after the land reclamation works to build Marine Parade were completed and carved out from Joo Chiat Constituency.

Goh Chok Tong made his political debut in the constituency when it was formed in 1976. He would later become the second Prime Minister of Singapore.

In 1988, the constituency was merged into Marine Parade Group Representation Constituency.

Member of Parliament

Year	Member of Parliament	Party
1976	Goh Chok Tong		PAP
1980
1984

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 1970s

General Election 1976: Marine Parade

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Goh Chok Tong	14,418	78.62
	UF	Monsor Rahman	3,922	21.38
Majority			10,496	57.24
Turnout			18,779	96.2
	PAP win (new seat)

Elections in 1980s

General Election 1980: Marine Parade

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Goh Chok Tong	Walkover
Turnout			21,903
	PAP hold		Swing

General Election 1984: Marine Parade

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PAP	Goh Chok Tong	15,228	70.93
	SUF	De Gracias Gertrude M	6,242	29.07
Majority			8,986	41.86
Turnout			22,206	94.0
	PAP hold		Swing	N/A

References

• 1984 General Election's result
• 1980 General Election's result
• 1976 General Election's result