West Coast Group Representation Constituency
The West Coast Group Representation Constituency is a five-member Group Representation Constituency located in the western area of Singapore. The GRC is divided into five divisions and is a constituency held by the People's Action Party. The five divisions are Ayer Rajah-Gek Poh, West Coast, Boon Lay, Nanyang and Telok Blangah. West Coast GRC covers the areas of Ayer Rajah, Dover, Pasir Panjang, the south-western area, West Coast, Jurong, Jurong Island, Sentosa, Telok Blangah, Tuas and much of Singapore's southern & western territorial waters of the country.
West Coast GRC after the 2020 General Election it has remain 2 full Minister leading a GRC with Communications and Information Minister Mr S Iswaran who is also the Minister overseeing for Trade Relations and Cyber Security matters continuing to lead the team where he has been an MP for this GRC since he enter politics looking after the West Coast Division residents. Since he start holding office political holders, he has lead the GRC with Former Minister Lim Hng Kiang which has already retired from politics. This GRC now replaces with Minister for National Development Mr Desmond Lee having him also being appointed as Minister to head the Social Service Intergration at the Ministry of Social and Family Development. Mr Lee now leads with Mr Iswaran following the 2020 General Election.
This GRC was the most marginal constituency in the 2020 general election, won by the PAP with just 51.69% of the votes.History
The constituency was a four-member GRC in 1997 and was expanded to five, when it was expanded to include the areas of the now defunct Boon Lay Single Member Constituency and the Jurong area of Bukit Timah Group Representation Constituency. In 2006, West Coast again absorbed Ayer Rajah Single Member Constituency and merged with Minister of State's S Iswaran's West Coast seat to form the Ayer Rajah-West Coast division. In 2011, Cedric Foo's Pioneer ward was crafted out a single member constituency, while the Jurong Industrial, Jurong Island and Tuas had been absorbed into Ayer Rajah's constituency. In 2015, the GRC was downsized to four members after the Clementi division was transferred to the nearby Jurong GRC. The constituency was increased to five seats ahead of the 2020, after the Nanyang division of Chua Chu Kang GRC and the Jurong West section of Hong Kah North SMC were merged into the constituency.
The constituency faced a contest against the Workers' Party in the 1997 general election. Since then, the constituency has received walkovers in the 2001 and 2006 general elections. A team of Reform Party of Singapore, led by secretary-general Kenneth Jeyaretnam, have challenged the People's Action Party incumbents in this GRC for the first time in the 2011 elections, and again in 2015.
Former Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang was the anchor minister of the GRC until his retirement from the cabinet in 2018. Since 2011, the GRC has been led by Lim and S Iswaran, who is the current Communication and Information Minister who is also Minister-in-charge of Trade Relations.
Boon Lay is a test water for several MPs since 2011. From 2011 to 2015, Lawrence Wong was also the semi-anchor minister of West Coast GRC, before moving to Marsiling–Yew Tee GRC. From 2015 to 2020, Patrick Tay was also the MP for Boon Lay before moving to Pioneer to replace retiring Cedric Foo. From 2020 onwards, Desmond Lee came into the area from Jurong Spring.
West Coast GRC's town council head office is located at Clementi.Members of Parliament
Candidates and Results
Elections in 2020s
Elections in 2010s
Elections in 2000s
Elections in 1990s