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Parliamentary General Election Results by Candidate

Parliamentary General Election Results by Candidate

Data from Jan 1955 to May 2025

Last updated: 03 Jun 2025, 14:28 SGT

ELD (Elections Department)

Explore official results of Singapore’s Parliamentary General Elections from 1955 to 2025. This dataset lists individual candidates (for SMC) or group of candidates (for GRC), their party affiliations, constituencies, vote counts and corresponding percentage vote share. For more information, visit: https://www.eld.gov.sg/

Data explorer

ParliamentaryGeneralElectionResultsbyCandidate.csv (1.6K rows, 96.3 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Constituency
Text
Constituency Type
Text
Candidates
Text
Party
Text
Vote Count
Text
Vote Percentage
Text
(Null)0.0%
195912.1%
196313.1%
19729.1%
19848.1%
(Null)0.0%
Sembawang2.2%
Tampines2.1%
Aljunied2.0%
Bukit Panjang2.0%
(Null)66.3%
SMC19.0%
GRC14.7%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
PAP45.5%
WP9.4%
Independent5.9%
BS4.4%
(Null)11.5%
(Null)11.5%
1955Bukit PanjangnaGoh Tong LiangPP30970.7221
1955Bukit PanjangnaLim Wee TohSLF11920.2779
1955Bukit TimahnaS. F. HoPP7220.1162
1955Bukit TimahnaLim Ching SiongPAP32590.5245
1955Bukit TimahnaA. N. MitraSLF9240.1488
1955Bukit TimahnaTan Wah MengDP13080.2105
1955CairnhillnaDavid MarshallSLF33050.4758
1955CairnhillnaC. C. TanPP25300.3642
1955CairnhillnaTan Khiang KhooDP11110.16
1955ChanginaC. K. LimDP26240.4508

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
ConstituencyconstituencyText--
Constituency Typeconstituency_typeText--
CandidatescandidatesText--
PartypartyText--
Vote Countvote_countText--
Vote Percentagevote_percentageText--
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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
          
dataset_id = "d_581a30bee57fa7d8383d6bc94739ad00"
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 Results by Candidate (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 28, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_581a30bee57fa7d8383d6bc94739ad00/view

About this dataset

Contact

kenny_chong@eld.gov.sg

Created on

01 Nov 2016

Licence

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

Agency

ELD (Elections Department)