Asia & Pacific · reference
🇸🇬 Singapore
Parliamentary republic under dominant-party rule
SystemParliamentary republic under dominant-party rule
Head of statePresident Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Head of governmentPrime Minister Lawrence Wong (People's Action Party)
LegislatureParliament · 97 elected seats plus non-constituency and nominated members
ElectionsElections are cleanly administered but the playing field structurally favours the PAP, in power since 1959
Last election2025-05-03 · general election, won by the PAP with about 66 percent
Next election2030 · general election due
Lawrence Wong's first electoral test in May 2025 returned the PAP comfortably, extending one of the world's longest unbroken runs of single-party government achieved through elections. The city-state couples exceptional prosperity and administrative capacity with tight limits on assembly and defamation-law pressure on critics. Its port, financial hub role and careful US-China balancing give it weight far beyond its size.
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