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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 Dec 2020

Last updated: 04 Jun 2024, 00:38 SGT

ELD (Elections Department)

Details on the general election process can be found here: http://www.eld.gov.sg/elections_parliamentary.html

Data explorer

ParliamentaryGeneralElectionDates.csv (16 rows, 433 B)

Year Datetime (Year) "YYYY"	Nomination day Text (General)	Polling day Text (General)
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
1955	2/28/1955	4/2/1955
1959	4/25/1959	5/30/1959
1963	9/12/1963	9/21/1963
1968	2/17/1968	4/13/1968
1972	8/23/1972	9/2/1972
1976	12/13/1976	12/23/1976
1980	12/13/1980	12/23/1980
1984	12/12/1984	12/22/1984
1988	8/24/1988	9/3/1988
1991	8/21/1991	8/31/1991

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Datetime (Year) "YYYY"	-	-
Nomination day	nomination_day	Text (General)	-	-
Polling day	polling_day	Text (General)	-	-

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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.

[This is a staging site, please do not use this data for anything except testing] Elections Department. (2016). Parliamentary General Election Dates (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 1, 2026 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)