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Dataset: Parliamentary General Election Dates

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%
19552/28/19554/2/1955
19594/25/19595/30/1959
19639/12/19639/21/1963
19682/17/19684/13/1968
19728/23/19729/2/1972
197612/13/197612/23/1976
198012/13/198012/23/1980
198412/12/198412/22/1984
19888/24/19889/3/1988
19918/21/19918/31/1991

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearDatetime (Year) "YYYY"--
Nomination daynomination_dayText (General)--
Polling daypolling_dayText (General)--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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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)