All 89 directly elected seats in Parliament (and up to 9 NCMPs)
Registered
2,462,926
Turnout
93.70% ( 0.52pp)
First party
Second party
Leader
Lee Hsien Loong
Low Thia Khiang
Party
PAP
WP
Last election
60.14%, 81 seats
12.83%, 8 seats
Seats won
83
9
Seat change
2
1
Popular vote
1,579,183
282,143
Percentage
69.86%
12.48%
Swing
9.72pp
0.35pp
Results by constituency
Prime Minister before election
Lee Hsien Loong
PAP
Prime Minister after election
Lee Hsien Loong
PAP
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General elections were held in Singapore on Friday, 11 September 2015 to elect 89 members of Parliament. The outgoing Parliament had been dissolved and the general election called by President Tony Tan on 25 August, on the advice of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.[1] The elections were for the 13th Parliament since independence in 1965, using the first-past-the-post electoral system.
The elections were the first since independence in which all seats were contested.[2] Most of the seats were contested between two parties, with the only three-cornered fights occurring in three Single Member Constituencies.[3] The elections were also the first after the March 2015 death of Lee Kuan Yew (the nation's first prime minister and an MP until his death) and Singapore's 50th anniversary celebration on 9 August that year.[4][5]
Of the 89 seats, the People's Action Party (PAP) contested all and won 83, with the other six won by the Workers' Party (WP); the WP successfully retained their wards of Aljunied GRC and Hougang SMC, with Punggol East SMC being the only seat to change hands, as it was recaptured by PAP.[1] Voter turnout was 94%. PAP won its best results since 2001 with 70% of the popular vote, an increase of 10 percentage points from the previous elections in 2011. WP received 40% of the vote in the 28 seats it contested, a drop of 7pp.[6] In the overall popular vote, WP scored 12.48% and the remaining seven parties less than 4% each.[3] Three candidates failed to secure at least 12.5% of votes in their area and thus lost their electoral deposit.[7]
^ abLee, U-Wen (12 September 2015). "PAP racks up landslide win, takes 83 out of 89 seats". Business Times. Archived from the original on 13 September 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
^Lee, Min Kok (12 September 2015). "GE2015: Voter turnout at 93.56 per cent, improves slightly from 2011 record low". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 13 September 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
^ ab"Singapore General Election 2015 Detailed Results". Today. Archived from the original on 12 September 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^"Singapore ruling party wins elections, returns to power". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 13 September 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
^Aw, Cheng Wei; Chua, Siang Yee; Chang, Rachel (12 September 2015). "'We did Mr Lee Kuan Yew proud' PAP's big wins". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 13 September 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
^Heng, Janice (12 September 2015). "For PAP, the numbers hark back to 2001 polls showing". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 12 September 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
^"The biggest losers of GE2015". 12 September 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
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