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2020 Singaporean general election

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2020 Singapore general election
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All 93 elected seats (+2 NCMPs seats) to the Parliament of Singapore
47 elected seats needed for a majority
Registered2,651,435 [1]
Turnout2,540,359 (95.81%)[1]
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Lee Hsien Loong Pritam Singh Tan Cheng Bock
Party People's Action Party Workers' Party Progress Singapore Party
Leader's seat Ang Mo Kio GRC Aljunied GRC West Coast GRC
(lost)
Last election 83
(69.86%) 		6 + 3 NCMPs
(12.48%) 		New Party
Seats before 82[4] 6 + 3 NCMPs New Party
Seats won 83[5] 10[5] 0 + 2 NCMPs[2][3]
Seat change Steady Increase 4 Decrease 3 NCMPs Increase 2 NCMPs
Popular vote 1,527,491 279,922 253,996
Percentage 61.23% 11.22% 10.18%
Swing Decrease 8.63% Decrease 1.26% New Party
Prime Minister before election

Lee Hsien Loong
PAP

Prime Minister after election

Lee Hsien Loong
PAP

A general election was held in Singapore on 10 July 2020.[7] It elected members to the 14th Parliament of Singapore using the first-past-the-post. Voting was mandatory for all Singaporeans over the age of 21.[8][9] The People's Action Party (PAP) won the election for the 15th time in a row since 1959 with Lee Hsien Loong staying as Prime Minister. The PAP won 83 seats with the Workers' Party winning 10. This was the largest opposition since 1966.[10]

Party Abbreviation Leader Year formed Seats before GE2020 Parliamentary presence
People's Action Party PAP Lee Hsien Loong
1954
82
 Legislative Assembly:
 1955–1965[11]
City Council Elections:
1957–1965[12]
Singapore Parliament:
 1965–Present
Workers' Party WP Pritam Singh
1957
6 + 3 NCMPs
 Legislative Assembly:
 1961–1963[13]
City Council Elections:
 1957–1959[12]
Singapore Parliament:
1981–1986; 1991–Present
Singapore Democratic Party SDP Chee Soon Juan
1980
0
 Singapore Parliament:
1984–1997
National Solidarity Party NSP Spencer Ng
1987
0
 Singapore Parliament:
 2001–2006
Singapore People's Party SPP Steve Chia
1994
0
 Singapore Parliament:
1997–2015
Singapore Democratic Alliance SDA Desmond Lim Bak Chuan
2001
0
 Singapore Parliament:
2001–2011
Progress Singapore Party PSP Tan Cheng Bock
2019
0
 Singapore Parliament:

2020–Present

Reform Party RP Kenneth Jeyaretnam
2008
0
 —
People's Power Party PPP Goh Meng Seng
2015
0
 —
Peoples Voice PV Lim Tean
2018
0
 —
Red Dot United RDU Ravi Philemon
2020
0
 —


e • d Summary of the 10 July 2020 Parliament of Singapore election results[1][14]
Parties and alliances Leader Contested seats Divs won Seats won Popular vote % of valid votes +/- % of valid votes in wards contested by party +/-
SMC GRC Divs Total
4m 5m
People's Action Party Lee Hsien Loong 14 6 11 31 93 28 83 1,527,491 61.23
 
 Decrease 8.63 61.23
 
 Decrease 8.63
Workers' Party Pritam Singh 2 1 3 6 21 3 10 279,922 11.22
 
 Decrease 1.26 50.49
 
 Increase 10.74
Progress Singapore Party Tan Cheng Bock 5 1 3 9 24 0 0 253,996 10.18
 
 New 40.86
 
 New
Singapore Democratic Party Chee Soon Juan 3 2 0 5 11 0 0 111,054 4.45
 
 Increase 0.69 37.04
 
 Increase 5.81
National Solidarity Party Spencer Ng 0 0 2 2 10 0 0 93,653 3.75
 
 Increase 0.22 33.15
 
 Increase 7.88
Peoples Voice Lim Tean 1 1 1 3 10 0 0 59,183 2.37
 
 New 21.27
 
 New
Reform Party Kenneth Jeyaretnam 1 0 1 2 6 0 0 54,599 2.19
 
 Decrease 0.44 27.85
 
 Increase 7.25
Singapore People's Party Steve Chia 1 1 0 2 5 0 0 37,998 1.52
 
 Decrease 0.65 33.85
 
 Increase 6.77
Singapore Democratic Alliance Desmond Lim 0 0 1 1 5 0 0 37,237 1.49
 
 Decrease 0.57 23.67
 
 Decrease 3.44
Red Dot United Ravi Philemon 0 0 1 1 5 0 0 31,260 1.25
 
 New 25.39
 
 New
People's Power Party Goh Meng Seng 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 7,489 0.30
 
 Decrease 0.83 28.26
 
 Increase 5.15
Independents — 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 655 0.03
 
 Decrease 0.09 2.78
 
 —
Valid votes 2,494,537 98.20% of total votes cast
Invalid (e.g. blank or spoilt) votes 45,822 1.80% of total votes cast
Total votes cast 2,540,359 Voter turnout: 95.81% of eligible voters
Did not vote 111,076
Eligible voters (excluding walkover voters) 2,651,435
Walkover voters 0
Electorate 2,651,435

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Elections Department (15 July 2020). "Press Release on Total Votes Cast at Singapore General Election 2020" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 July 2020. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  2. ↑ "Progress Singapore Party's Leong Mun Wai, Hazel Poa to take up NCMP seats". Today. 14 July 2020. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  3. ↑ "Parliamentary Elections Act – Candidates mentioned declared elected as non-constituency Member of Parliament". Notification No. 1449 of 2020 (PDF). Republic of Singapore Government Gazette. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 July 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2020. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original on 20 July 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ↑ Tham, Yuen-C (6 August 2017). "Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob to run for President in coming election". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 6 August 2017. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Parliamentary Elections Act – Candidates mentioned elected as Member of Parliament". Notification No. 1448 of 2020 (PDF). Republic of Singapore Government Gazette. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 July 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  6. ↑ "Workers' Party chief Low Thia Khiang to step down as secretary-general by next party election". Channel NewsAsia. 3 November 2017. Archived from the original on 3 November 2017. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  7. ↑ Elections Department (23 June 2020). "Press Release on General Election 2020" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 June 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  8. ↑ "Parliamentary Elections (Prescribed Date) Order 2020". Subsidiary Legislation Supplement No. S 157 of 2020 (PDF). Republic of Singapore Government Gazette. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 June 2020. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  9. ↑ Sugam Pokharel; Nectar Gan. "Singapore's ruling party stays in power, but support has waned". CNN.
  10. ↑ Dhevarajan Devadas (11 July 2020). "The ten seats won by WP in #GE2020 marks the first time we've had that many fully elected opposition MPs since January 1966 when there were 10 Barisan MPs. Barisan merged with WP in 1988, so in a way, history has come full circle. #historynerd". Archived from the original on 11 July 2020. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  11. ↑ "Singapore Legislative Assembly General Election 1955". singapore-elections.com. Archived from the original on 29 August 2015. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Singapore City Council Election 1957". singapore-elections.com. Archived from the original on 10 September 2015. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  13. ↑ "Singapore Legislative Assembly By-Election July 1961". singapore-elections.com. Archived from the original on 10 September 2015. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  14. ↑ Elections Department (16 July 2020). "2020 Parliamentary General Election Results". Archived from the original on 20 July 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
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