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List of Political Parties

Data from Jan 1955 to Dec 2015Updated 9 months ago

ELD (Elections Department)

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ListofPoliticalParties.csv (39 rows, 1 KB)

Abbreviation Text	Political Party Name Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
AI	Angkatan Islam Singapura (Angkasa)
BS	Barisan Sosialis
CP	Citizens' Party
DP	Democratic Party
DPP	Democratic Progressive Party
JPS	Justice Party Singapore
KURA	Katong United Residents Association
LP	Labour Party
LSP	Liberal Socialist Party
NSP	National Solidarity Party

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Abbreviation	abbreviation	Text	-	-
Political Party Name	political_party	Text	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_ef163fd9ebc3c2f21032c29da3bd3f77"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Elections Department. (2016). List of Political Parties (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved March 14, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_ef163fd9ebc3c2f21032c29da3bd3f77/view

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Created on

01 Nov 2016

Licence

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

Agency

ELD (Elections Department)