Voters: 18,475

Polled: 17,756 (96.1%)

	OW Chin Hock, 33 Economics lecturer [M]		NG Lep Chong, 27 Businessman [M]
13,356 (76.8%)		4,043 (23.2%)

Winner's majority: 9,313 (53.6%)

Valid votes: 17,399 (98.0%)

Rejected votes: 357 (2.0%)

Previous GE 1972: PAP won 68.3% (swing +8.5%)