Punggol East Single Member Constituency

Punggol East
Single Member Constituency for the Parliament of Singapore
Region	Northeastern Singapore
Electorate	34,466
Current constituency
Created	2011
Member(s)	Charles Chong
Town Council	Pasir Ris-Punggol

Punggol East Single Member Constituency (Chinese: 榜鹅东单选区; Malay: Kawasan Undi Perseorangan Punggol East; Tamil: பொங்கோல் ஈஸ்ட் தனித்தொகுதி) is a Single Member Constituency located in the north-eastern area of Singapore. Despite its name, the ward does not cover the town of Punggol but rather its boundaries span the neighbourhood of Rivervale, the eastern area of Sengkang. This ward has been carved out during the 2011's General Election and was formerly a ward from the Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC.

On 12 December 2012, then MP for Punggol East SMC, Michael Palmer resigned after an extramarital affair was revealed. A by-election was held on 26 January 2013, and Lee Li Lian of the Workers' Party was elected as MP.

During the 2015 general elections, PAP's Charles Chong won in Punggol East SMC, replacing Lee Li Lian as MP for the constituency.

In the 2011 general elections, the constituency saw a 3-cornered contest, the only such in the election; this phenomenon was last seen in the 2001 general elections in the then Bukit Timah SMC. Desmond Lim of the Singapore Democratic Alliance secured a mere 4.45% of the votes in Punggol East SMC, against PAP's Michael Palmer and Workers' Party's Lee Li Lian. This is the lowest percentage of votes a candidate has garnered in the 2011's General Election. As a result, he was the only candidate of the island-wide election to have his election deposit forfeited.

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