Mountbatten Single Member Constituency

The Mountbatten Single Member Constituency^[a] is a single-member constituency (SMC) situated in central Singapore. It is managed by Marine Parade–Braddell Heights Town Council (MPBHTC). The current Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency is Gho Sze Kee from the People's Action Party (PAP).

RegionCentral Region, Singapore

Electorate22,843

Created1957; 69 years ago

Seats1

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Mountbatten
Single-member constituency for the Parliament of Singapore

Region	Central Region, Singapore
Electorate	22,843
Current constituency
Created	1957; 69 years ago (1957)
Seats	1
Party	People's Action Party
Member	Gho Sze Kee
Town Council	Marine Parade–Braddell Heights
Merged	1997
Merged to	Marine Parade GRC
Reformed	2011
Reformed from	Marine Parade GRC

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History

Mountbatten Constituency was established in 1957; it was first contested at the 1959 general election and won by Seow Peck Leng from the Singapore People's Alliance (SPA). It was one of the few constituencies not won by the PAP, which secured 43 out of 51 seats in that general election. The PAP gained control of the constituency in the 1963 general election through the election of Ng Yeow Chong. He served as the Member of Parliament until his retirement at the 1980 general election, after which he was succeeded by Eugene Yap.

At the 1988 general election, with the introduction of group representation constituencies (GRCs), the constituency was renamed Mountbatten Single Member Constituency in line with the new designation for constituencies with a single MP.^[2]

Yap represented Mountbatten until the constituency was abolished in the 1997 general election and merged into Marine Parade GRC as a division.^[3]

Since 2011

Prior to the 2011 general election, Mountbatten SMC was reformed from the division of the same name in Marine Parade GRC.^[4] Lim Biow Chuan, the incumbent MP for the division, contested the SMC, defeating Jeanette Chong-Aruldoss from the National Solidarity Party (NSP) with 58.62% of the vote.^[4]^[5]

For the 2015 general election, Chong-Aruldoss switched to the Singapore People's Party (SPP);^[6]^[4] Lim defeated her in a rematch with an improved 71.86% of the vote.^[5]^[7]

For the 2020 general election, Lim stood for reelection in Mountbatten SMC; he defeated Peoples Voice (PV) newcomer Sivakumaran Chellappa with an improved 73.82% of the vote despite a national swing against the PAP.^[8]^[9]^[10]

Interactive map of Mountbatten SMC as of the 2025 general election

Prior to the 2025 general election, a polling district was moved from Mountbatten SMC to the newly created Marine Parade–Braddell Heights GRC.^[11] It was announced at the same election that Lim would retire from politics; Gho, a political newcomer, replaced him as the PAP candidate for the SMC.^[12]^[13] She defeated independent candidate and Bitcoin investor Jeremy Tan with 63.82% of the vote, a negative swing of 10% from 2020.^[14]^[15]

Member of Parliament

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Year	Member
Formation
Legislative Assembly of Singapore
1959	Seow Peck Leng	SPA
1963	Ng Yeow Chong	PAP
Parliament of Singapore
1968	Ng Yeow Chong	PAP
1972
1976
1980	Eugene Yap Giau Cheng
1984
1988
1991
Constituency abolished (1997 – 2011)
2011	Lim Biow Chuan	PAP
2015
2020
2025	Gho Sze Kee

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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).