joo chiat single member constituency was formerly part of the grc until 2001, and subsumed into marine parade grc as of the 2015 elections. a large portion of the kaki bukit division and 60% of kampong chai chee was transferred from east coast grc to marine parade grc and saw the removal of chew heng ching, tan soo khoon and lee yock suan due to the advanced age in 2006, followed by s jayakumar and abdullah tarmugi in 2011. it was downsized from six members to five members following the redrawing of divisions into the marine parade grc in 2006. the offshore island of coney island was transferred to pasir ris-punggol grc in 2015, while fengshan smc was carved out and east coast grc was left with four members.