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Collection: Presidential Election Results

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

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Presidential Election - Registered Electors, Rejected Votes and Spoilt Ballots

Data from Jan 1993 to Jan 2023

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:29 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_f6ac3c09e5eaf6a1d33fda03f397e619"
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). Presidential Election - Registered Electors, Rejected Votes and Spoilt Ballots (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved March 14, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_f6ac3c09e5eaf6a1d33fda03f397e619/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.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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Presidential Election - Registered Electors, Rejected Votes and Spoilt Ballots

Data from Jan 1993 to Jan 2023

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:29 SGT

ELD (Elections Department)

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Data explorer

PresidentialElectionRegisteredElectorsRejectedVotesandSpoiltBallots.csv (5 rows, 187 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	No of Registered Electors Text	No. of Rejected Votes Text	No. of Spoilt Ballot Papers Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)40.0%	(Null)40.0%
1993	1756517	36611	355
1999	1967984	na	na
2005	2113540	na	na
2011	2274773	37849	441
2023	2709407	50230	1299

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
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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