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Collection: Parliamentary General Election Results

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

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

Data from Jan 1955 to May 2025

Last updated: 25 Sep 2025, 16:02 SGT

ELD (Elections Department)

Explore historical voter statistics from Singapore’s Parliamentary General Elections, including the number of registered electors, rejected votes, and spoilt ballots by constituency and year. For more information, visit: https://www.eld.gov.sg/

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_fdfb854fcb7428b29734d2e0c0674220"
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 General Election - Registered Electors, Rejected Votes and Spoilt Ballots (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved December 31, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_fdfb854fcb7428b29734d2e0c0674220/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)

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Social

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

Data from Jan 1955 to May 2025

Last updated: 25 Sep 2025, 16:02 SGT

ELD (Elections Department)

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Data explorer

ParliamentaryGeneralElectionRegisteredElectorsRejectedVotesandSpoiltBallots.csv (753 rows, 21.9 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% 19728.6% 19769.2% 198010.0% 198410.5%	(Null)0.0% Sembawang2.3% Tanjong Pagar2.3% Aljunied2.1% Tampines2.1%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)24.6%	(Null)24.6% 06.5% 37.4% 46.9% 55.3%
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	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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