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Collection: Parliamentary By-Election Results

Dataset: Parliamentary By-Election - Registered Electors, Rejected Votes and Spoilt Ballots

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

Data from Jan 1957 to Jan 2016

Last updated: 03 Jun 2025, 12:24 SGT

ELD (Elections Department)

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_f237c2349833df4247d2f93102e714d5"
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 - Registered Electors, Rejected Votes and Spoilt Ballots (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved December 24, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_f237c2349833df4247d2f93102e714d5/view

About this dataset

Contact

Kenny_CHEONG@eld.gov.sg

Created on

02 Nov 2016

Licence

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

Agency

ELD (Elections Department)

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

Data from Jan 1957 to Jan 2016

Last updated: 03 Jun 2025, 12:24 SGT

ELD (Elections Department)

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Data explorer

ParliamentaryByElectionRegisteredElectorsRejectedVotesandSpoiltBallots.csv (36 rows, 1.1 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Constituency Text	No Of Registered Electors Text	No Of Rejected Votes Text	No Of Spoilt Ballot Papers Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)41.7%	(Null)41.7%
1957	Cairnhill	14802	74	6
1957	Tanjong Pagar	14761	76	4
1961	Hong Lim	11892	251	2
1961	Anson	9816	131	3
1965	Hong Lim	11837	114	2
1966	Bukit Merah	13489	396	1
1966	Chua Chu Kang	14854	na	na
1966	Crawford	9918	na	na
1966	Paya Lebar	10450	na	na
1966	Bukit Timah	15760	na	na

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	Text	-	-
No Of Rejected Votes	no_of_rejected_votes	Text	-	-
No Of Spoilt Ballot Papers	no_of_spoilt_ballot_papers	Text	-	-

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