Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC

Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC
New faces
Chee
Hong Tat, 41
• Former
senior civil
servant
Chong
Kee Hiong, 49
• Chief
executive of
OUE Hospitality
Trust
ABOUT THE CONSTITUENCY
• Formed in 1997,
saw its first contest
from the SPP in 2011
• Now comprises Bishan East, Bishan
North, Toa Payoh Central, Toa Payoh
East and Thomson-Toa Payoh
Upper Peirce
Reservoir
ANG
SIN
UPPER
THOMSON
ROAD
Peirce
Secondary School
EX
PRE
S SW
AY
Bukit Brown station
(not in use)
MO
U
ND
POPULATION PROFILE
68.2%
Public housing
27.7%
No. of voters
(estimated, 2015)
129,850
Toa Payoh
station
LORONG 1
TOA PAYOH
Hri Kumar Nair, 49
• Outgoing BishanToa Payoh Town
Council chairman
• First election
contested: 2006
LORONG 6
TOA PAYOH
Braddell
station
Pei Chun
Public
School
CENTRAL
EXPRESSWAY
LORONG 6
TOA PAYOH
ASANT
PLE
R OA
NT
D
JALAN AMPAS
PAN-ISLAND EXPRESSWAY
31.8%
Private housing
BALESTIER ROAD
Novena
station
OAD
NR
199,000
Caldecott
station
SO
Total population
THOMSON
ROAD
BRADDELL ROAD
THOM
(After boundary changes)
CENTRAL
EXPRESSWAY
iver
lang R
Kal
LORNIE ROAD
PA
NISL
A
AVENUE 1
Raffles
Instituition
MacRitchie
Reservoir
SIME ROAD
Zainudin Nordin, 52
• Former central
district mayor
• First election
contested: 2001
Whitley
Secondary
School
Catholic
High School
Marymount
Bishan
station
station
Thomson
Plaza
Bukit
Golf Course
MO K
IO
MING AVEN
UE
Wong Kan Seng, 68
• Former deputy
prime minister and
home affairs minister
• Entered politics
in 1984
• Added 7,000 voters
from the former
Moulmein-Kallang GRC
Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park
Lower Peirce
Reservoir
Island
Golf Course
Saktiandi
Supaat, 41
• Head of foreign
exchange
research at
Maybank
MA RYMOUNT
ROAD
Josephine Teo, 47
• Senior Minister of
State for Transport
and Finance
• First election
contested: 2006
Ng Eng Hen, 56
• Defence
Minister
• First election
contested:
2001
Stepping down
56.9% PAP
2011 GE RESULTS
43.1% SPP
One- to three-room
40.5%
Four- and five-room
or executive units
St Joseph’s
Instituition
MOULMEIN ROAD
ST GRAPHICS