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Parliamentary By-Election Results

Parliamentary By-Election Results by Candidate

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Parliamentary By-Election Results by Candidate

Data from Jan 1957 to Dec 2016

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:56 SGT

ELD (Elections Department)

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ParliamentaryByElectionResultsbyCandidate.csv (70 rows, 3.7 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Constituency Text	Constituency Type Text	Candidates Text	Party Text	Vote count Numeric	Percentage of Valid Votes Numeric (Percentage)
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)82.9%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)21.4%	(Null)21.4%
1957	Cairnhill	na	Abdul Majid Mirza	Independent	91	0.0156
1957	Cairnhill	na	Goh Kong Beng	Independent	1281	0.2203
1957	Cairnhill	na	Keng Ban Ee	SLF	1118	0.1923
1957	Cairnhill	na	Soh Ghee Soon	LSP	2342	0.4028
1957	Cairnhill	na	Tengku Muda Muhamed bin Mahmud	Independent	983	0.169
1957	Tanjong Pagar	na	Chong Wee Ling	LSP	1315	0.1903
1957	Tanjong Pagar	na	Koh Choon Hong	Independent	887	0.1284
1957	Tanjong Pagar	na	Lee Kuan Yew	PAP	4707	0.6813
1961	Anson	na	Chee Phui Hung	SA	1482	0.1784
1961	Anson	na	K. M. Ibrahim	SC	69	0.0084

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	Numeric	No. of Votes	-
Percentage of Valid Votes	vote_percentage	Numeric (Percentage)	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_ba8da764a37ca36b34e4e5ad866294f8"
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 Results by Candidate (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 6, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_ba8da764a37ca36b34e4e5ad866294f8/view

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Created on

02 Nov 2016

Licence

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

Agency

ELD (Elections Department)