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Parliamentary General Election Results by Candidate

Data from Jan 1955 to Jan 2020Updated about 1 month ago

ELD (Elections Department)

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ParliamentaryGeneralElectionResultsbyCandidate.csv (1.5K rows, 89.8 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Constituency Text	Constituency Type Text	Candidates Text	Party Text	Vote Count Text	Percentage of Valid Votes Text
(Null)0.0% 195912.6% 196313.6% 19729.5% 19848.4%	(Null)0.0% Sembawang2.1% Aljunied1.9% Tampines1.9% Bukit Panjang1.9%	(Null)69.3% SMC17.8% GRC12.9%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% PAP45.5% WP9.4% Independent6.0% BS4.5%	(Null)12.0%	(Null)12.0%
1955	Bukit Panjang	na	Goh Tong Liang	PP	3097	0.7221
1955	Bukit Panjang	na	Lim Wee Toh	SLF	1192	0.2779
1955	Bukit Timah	na	S. F. Ho	PP	722	0.1162
1955	Bukit Timah	na	Lim Ching Siong	PAP	3259	0.5245
1955	Bukit Timah	na	A. N. Mitra	SLF	924	0.1488
1955	Bukit Timah	na	Tan Wah Meng	DP	1308	0.2105
1955	Cairnhill	na	David Marshall	SLF	3305	0.4758
1955	Cairnhill	na	C. C. Tan	PP	2530	0.3642
1955	Cairnhill	na	Tan Khiang Khoo	DP	1111	0.16
1955	Changi	na	C. K. Lim	DP	2624	0.4508

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Constituency	constituency	Text	-	-
Constituency Type	constituency_type	Text	-	-
Candidates	candidates	Text	-	For GRCs, candidate names are separated by the pipe character "\|".
Party	party	Text	-	-
Vote Count	vote_count	Text	-	-
Percentage of Valid Votes	vote_percentage	Text	-	-

Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
datasetId = "d_581a30bee57fa7d8383d6bc94739ad00"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + datasetId 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

About this dataset

Contact

kenny_CHEONG@ELD.GOV.SG

Created on

01 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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