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Parliamentary General Election Dates

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Parliamentary General Election Dates

Data from Jan 1955 to Jan 2025

Last updated: 21 Apr 2025, 19:15 SGT

ELD (Elections Department)

Discover Singapore’s past general election dates from 1955 to 2025. Verify key nomination and polling days from ELD, and prepare for GE2025. Details on the general election process can be found here: http://www.eld.gov.sg/elections_parliamentary.html.

Data explorer

ParliamentaryGeneralElectionDates.csv (17 rows, 507 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Nomination Day
Date (YYYY-MM-DD)
Polling Day
Date (YYYY-MM-DD)
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
19551955-02-281955-04-02
19591959-04-251959-05-30
19631963-09-121963-09-21
19681968-02-171968-04-13
19721972-08-231972-09-02
19761976-12-131976-12-23
19801980-12-131980-12-23
19841984-12-121984-12-22
19881988-08-241988-09-03
19911991-08-211991-08-31

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
Nomination Daynomination_dayDate (YYYY-MM-DD)--
Polling Daypolling_dayDate (YYYY-MM-DD)--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_00d89e5d100a612e36432d91493785bd"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Elections Department. (2016). Parliamentary General Election Dates (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 26, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_00d89e5d100a612e36432d91493785bd/view

About this dataset

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Created on

01 Nov 2016

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

ELD (Elections Department)