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Parliamentary General Election - Registered Electors, Rejected Votes and Spoilt Ballots

Data from Jan 1955 to Dec 2020Updated 11 months ago

ELD (Elections Department)

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ParliamentaryGeneralElectionRegisteredElectorsRejectedVotesandSpoiltBallots.csv (721 rows, 20.1 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Constituency Text	No. of Registered Electors Numeric	No. of Rejected Votes Numeric	No. of Spoilt Ballot Papers Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)25.7%	(Null)25.7%
1955	Bukit Panjang	8012	66	7
1955	Bukit Timah	9173	59	8
1955	Cairnhill	13528	65	12
1955	Changi	11239	70	6
1955	Farrer Park	12242	93	14
1955	Geylang	16604	88	16
1955	Havelock	12835	61	7
1955	Kampong Kapor	13815	144	4
1955	Katong	22196	120	14
1955	Pasir Panjang	13812	60	6

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Constituency	constituency	Text	-	-
No. of Registered Electors	no_of_registered_electors	Numeric	No. of People	-
No. of Rejected Votes	no_of_rejected_votes	Numeric	No. of Rejected Votes	-
No. of Spoilt Ballot Papers	no_of_spoilt_ballot_papers	Numeric	No. of Spoilt Ballot Papers	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_fdfb854fcb7428b29734d2e0c0674220"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Elections Department. (2016). Parliamentary General Election - Registered Electors, Rejected Votes and Spoilt Ballots (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 26, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_fdfb854fcb7428b29734d2e0c0674220/view

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Created on

01 Nov 2016

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

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ELD (Elections Department)