{"iso":"SG","name":"Singapore","flag":"\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec","vote":"Parliament \u00b7 baseline forecast","model":"baseline","updated":"2025-05-03","source":"2025 election result, official count as published","credit":"Data note, Singapore's elections are cleanly administered and their results are respected, but the playing field structurally favours the People's Action Party, in power since 1959, through constituency design, media dominance and defamation-law pressure on critics. The figures shown are the May 2025 general election national vote shares, official results as published by the Elections Department Singapore. The PAP won 87 of the 97 elected seats and the Workers' Party 10, with two further WP candidates seated as non-constituency members. The next general election is due by 2030.","shares":{"PAP":65.6,"WP":15.0,"PSP":4.9,"RDU":4.0,"SDP":3.7,"PAR":2.5},"polls":[],"parties":{"PAP":{"name":"People's Action Party (PAP)","color":"#2C59AC","name_en":"People's Action Party"},"WP":{"name":"Workers' Party (WP)","color":"#EE0000","name_en":"Workers' Party"},"PSP":{"name":"Progress Singapore Party (PSP)","color":"#FF8889","name_en":"Progress Singapore Party"},"RDU":{"name":"Red Dot United (RDU)","color":"#DC6698","name_en":"Red Dot United"},"SDP":{"name":"Singapore Democratic Party (SDP)","color":"#BC0001","name_en":"Singapore Democratic Party"},"PAR":{"name":"People's Alliance for Reform (PAR)","color":"#6E0722","name_en":"People's Alliance for Reform"}},"primer":{"system":"Parliamentary republic under dominant-party rule","head_of_state":"President Tharman Shanmugaratnam","head_of_government":"Prime Minister Lawrence Wong","legislature":"Parliament of Singapore, unicameral. 97 elected members serving terms of up to five years, plus non-constituency and nominated members.","electoral_system":"Members are elected by plurality voting in single-member constituencies and in multi-member group representation constituencies, where the winning party slate takes every seat. The best-performing defeated opposition candidates fill non-constituency seats up to a guaranteed minimum of 12 opposition members.","government_now":"Lawrence Wong of the People's Action Party has been prime minister since May 2024 and won his first electoral test in May 2025, extending one of the world's longest unbroken runs of single-party government achieved through elections.","context":"The May 2025 election returned the PAP comfortably with about 65.6 percent of the vote. 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.","sources":"Cross-checked against the English-language MediaWiki encyclopedic record via its public API, 2 July 2026."},"parties_info":{"PAP":["People's Action Party (PAP)","","The technocratic, pro-business party that has governed Singapore continuously since 1959; centre-right and communitarian, now led by PM Lawrence Wong with a large majority."],"WP":["Workers' Party (WP)","","Centre-left, social-democratic main opposition party; the only opposition with elected seats (10 after 2025)."],"PSP":["Progress Singapore Party (PSP)","","Opposition party founded in 2019 by former PAP MP Tan Cheng Bock; centre-right and critical of immigration policy; won no seats in 2025."],"RDU":["Red Dot United (RDU)","","Small progressive opposition party formed in 2020; contested widely in 2025 but won no seats."],"SDP":["Singapore Democratic Party (SDP)","","Long-standing opposition party led by Chee Soon Juan, social-democratic and liberal on civil liberties; won no seats in 2025."],"PAR":["People's Alliance for Reform (PAR)","","Opposition alliance led by Lim Tean; won no seats in 2025."]},"seats_now":{"chamber":"Parliament of Singapore","as_of":"2025 election","total":97,"seats":{"PAP":87,"WP":10,"PSP":0,"RDU":0,"SDP":0,"PAR":0}},"has_geo":true,"geo_meta":{"kind":"admin1","source":"Natural Earth 10m admin-1 states/provinces (nvkelso/natural-earth-vector), retrieved 2026-07-02","note":"Region set and any internationally-disputed territories follow the Natural Earth source dataset. Far overseas/outlying territories may fall outside the primary map frame."},"next_election":{"date":"2030","title":"Singaporean general election","chamber":"Parliament","type":"expected"}}