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Parliamentary By-Election Dates

Data from Jan 1957 to Dec 2016Updated 6 months ago

ELD (Elections Department)

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ParliamentaryByElectionDates.csv (36 rows, 1.2 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Constituency Text	Nomination Day Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	Polling Day Date (YYYY-MM-DD)
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)41.7%
1957	Cairnhill	1957-05-18	1957-06-29
1957	Tanjong Pagar	1957-05-18	1957-06-29
1961	Hong Lim	1961-03-11	1961-04-29
1961	Anson	1961-06-10	1961-07-15
1965	Hong Lim	1965-06-30	1965-07-10
1966	Bukit Merah	1966-01-08	1966-01-18
1966	Chua Chu Kang	1966-03-01	na
1966	Crawford	1966-03-01	na
1966	Paya Lebar	1966-03-01	na
1966	Bukit Timah	1966-11-02	na

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Constituency	constituency	Text	-	-
Nomination Day	nomination_day	Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	-	-
Polling Day	polling_day	Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_3ae9116b99b4bc1e64883f0d75aee967"
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 By-Election Dates (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 22, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_3ae9116b99b4bc1e64883f0d75aee967/view

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Created on

02 Nov 2016

Licence

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

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ELD (Elections Department)

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