1992 Marine Parade by-election
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| Registered | 73,986 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 68,436 (92.50%) 1.07% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A by-election was held in the Marine Parade Group Representation Constituency in Singapore on 19 December 1992. It was called by Goh Chok Tong, who was the MP of the Marine Parade division and had become prime minister the previous year. He had decided to hold a by-election in his own constituency to get people of "ministerial calibre" to join the government under the People's Action Party (PAP).
This was the first and only time that a Singaporean prime minister had vacated their own constituency to stand for a by-election, thereby producing a risk of Goh losing the premiership in under two years in the event he lost the by-election. On nomination day, four political parties including the PAP was set to contest in the by-election; it was the first time in any election a multi-cornered contest occurred inside a Group Representation Constituency.
On polling day, the PAP team of four were re-elected as the MPs for Marine Parade GRC with almost 73% of the votes against three opposition parties.