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Collection: Parliamentary General Election Results

Dataset: List of Political Parties

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List of Political Parties

Data from Jan 1955 to May 2025

Last updated: 02 Jun 2025, 14:12 SGT

ELD (Elections Department)

Access a comprehensive list of political parties that have contested in Singapore's elections since 1955. This dataset includes official party abbreviations and full party names, covering both active and dormant parties. For more information, visit: https://www.eld.gov.sg/

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ListofPoliticalParties.csv (41 rows, 1.1 KB)

Abbreviation Text	Political Party Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
AI	Angkatan Islam Singapura (Angkasa)
BS	Barisan Sosialis
CP	Citizens' Party
DP	Democratic Party
DPP	Democratic Progressive Party
JPS	Justice Party Singapore
KURA	Katong United Residents Association
LP	Labour Party
LSP	Liberal Socialist Party
NSP	National Solidarity Party

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Abbreviation	abbreviation	Text	-	-
Political Party	political_party	Text	-	-

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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_ef163fd9ebc3c2f21032c29da3bd3f77"
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). List of Political Parties (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved May 16, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_ef163fd9ebc3c2f21032c29da3bd3f77/view

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.

Agency

ELD (Elections Department)