Of the GRCs, 10 may have five Members while eight does have four people.
The limitations of the opposition-held Aljunied GRC were likewise redrawn for the first time since the 2011 net.
The EBRC was tasked to “keep the average length of GRCs, the percentage of Members of Parliament elected from SMCs, and the typical amount of votes to appointed MPs, all at about the same as that in the past General Election”, when it was formed in late January.
A total of 82 tickets will become contested in GRCs in the coming General Election — an average of 4.56 Members per GRC.
This continued a downward trend over the past poll processes. The 2020 battle saw 4.65 Members per GRC, along from 4.75 Members per GRC in 2015 and five MPs per GRC in 2011. The number had peaked at 5.36 in 2001 and 2006.
The GRC system was established in 1988 to ensure that the majority races may become represented in parliament.
GRCs you have three to six MPs and at least one of them must get from a minority culture. Also, the number of GRCs with a Malay MP cannot be more than three-fifths the total amount of GRCs.
UNEVEN VOTER GROWTH
The general growth in citizens across the peninsula was not equally distributed across the different rooms, said the EBRC in its statement.
” Due to population shifts and new housing developments, some EDs (electoral divisions ) such as Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC, Sembawang GRC, Tampines GRC, Hong Kah North SMC and Potong Pasir SMC have experienced higher growth than others”, it said.
There were 2, 753, 226 citizens on the political move as of Feb 1 this month, an increase of 101, 791 delegates from 2, 651, 435 votes in the last battle, said the EBRC.
The starting place of its assessment was to look at units which had grown considerably since the last election – Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC, Hong Kah North SMC, Sembawang GRC and Tampines GRC.
” Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC has seen the largest increase in the number of votes since the last GE, and will continue to grow with new housing developments”, it said.
There are now 184, 593 citizens in the district, away from 166, 556 who cast their ballots in the 2020 competition – an increase of 18, 037, or 10.8 per share
The Punggol estates in Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC were thus carved out and merged with Punggol West SMC to form a novel four-member Punggol GRC, the EBRC said. ” This will also greater reflect the personality of the holdings in Punggol area”.
Hong Kah North SMC, which now has 45, 586 citizens and breaches the lower limit for a single-seat hospital, “has grown considerably and will continue to grow rapidly in the coming years, due to new housing developments in Tengah and Bukit Batok West”, according to the document.
” It has become too large to be as an SMC”, said the EBRC, in explaining its logic for absorbing the Tengah estates into Chua Chu Kang GRC.
A fresh Bukit Gombak SMC was subsequently formed from the Bukit Gombak and Hillview lands in Chua Chu Kang GRC, in order to keep the hospital as a four-member group while “accommodating considerable future population growth in Tengah”.
Voting progress also saw the development of Sembawang West SMC from Sembawang GRC, and Tampines Changkat SMC from Tampines GRC.
” The commission also recommended reducing the size of Ang Mo Kio GRC, which has the most votes of any ED, by carving out some polling regions to form a fresh Jalan Kayu SMC”, the EBRC said.
Ang Mo Kio GRC now has 190, 800 citizens.