Voters: 9,402

Polled: 5,620 (59.8%)

	Madai Puthan Damodaran NAIR, 35 Legislative Councillor [M]		LEK Poh Song, 33 Merchant [M]
1,771 (31.8%)		1,632 (29.3%)
	TAN Leong Teck, 32 Merchant [M]		KHEW Pee Ging, 41 Matron [F]
1,252 (22.5%)		909 (16.3%)

Winner's majority: 139 (2.5%)

Valid votes: 5,564 (99.0%)

Rejected votes: 56 (1.0%)

Previous BE 1952: M. P. D. NAIR won uncontested