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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%
AIAngkatan Islam Singapura (Angkasa)
BSBarisan Sosialis
CPCitizens' Party
DPDemocratic Party
DPPDemocratic Progressive Party
JPSJustice Party Singapore
KURAKatong United Residents Association
LPLabour Party
LSPLiberal Socialist Party
NSPNational Solidarity Party

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
AbbreviationabbreviationText--
Political Partypolitical_partyText--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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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 September 13, 2025 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)