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Collection: Parliamentary General Election Results

Dataset: Parliamentary General Election Dates

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Parliamentary General Election Dates

Data from Jan 1955 to Jan 2025

Last updated: 21 Apr 2025, 19:15 SGT

ELD (Elections Department)

Discover Singapore’s past general election dates from 1955 to 2025. Verify key nomination and polling days from ELD, and prepare for GE2025. Details on the general election process can be found here: http://www.eld.gov.sg/elections_parliamentary.html.

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_00d89e5d100a612e36432d91493785bd"
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 Dates (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved December 30, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_00d89e5d100a612e36432d91493785bd/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.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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Parliamentary General Election Dates

Data from Jan 1955 to Jan 2025

Last updated: 21 Apr 2025, 19:15 SGT

ELD (Elections Department)

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Data explorer

ParliamentaryGeneralElectionDates.csv (17 rows, 507 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Nomination Day Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	Polling Day Date (YYYY-MM-DD)
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
1955	1955-02-28	1955-04-02
1959	1959-04-25	1959-05-30
1963	1963-09-12	1963-09-21
1968	1968-02-17	1968-04-13
1972	1972-08-23	1972-09-02
1976	1976-12-13	1976-12-23
1980	1980-12-13	1980-12-23
1984	1984-12-12	1984-12-22
1988	1988-08-24	1988-09-03
1991	1991-08-21	1991-08-31

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Nomination Day	nomination_day	Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	-	-
Polling Day	polling_day	Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	-	-

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