More electoral divisions, no 6-member GRCs in coming election: EBRC report

SINGAPORE: There will be more electoral divisions and no six-member Group Representation Constituencies in the coming election, according to the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee’s report released on Friday .

In 2015, the report was released on Jul 24, a month before parliament was dissolved. Polling day was on Sep 11, 2015.Four of the single-member wards are new – Kebun Baru, Marymount, Punggol West and Yio Chu Kang. Three SMCs have been wiped off the map: Fengshan, Punggol East and Sengkang West.Of the 17 GRCs, six have four members and 11 have five members. The six-member GRCs – Ang Mo Kio and Pasir Ris-Punggol – have been reduced to five members.

In the next election, 79 candidates will stand in GRCs, working out to an average of 4.65 MPs per GRC. This is lower than the 4.75 MPs per GRC in the 2015 GE and the five MPs per GRC in 2011. The figure had peaked at 5.36 in 2001 and 2006 before falling in the last two elections. GRCs can have three to six MPs and at least one of them must be from a minority race. Moreover, the number of GRCs with a Malay MP cannot be more than three-fifths the total number of GRCs.It has taken the EBRC, a committee made up of five senior public servants, eight months to release its report since the committee was formed in August.

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