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General elections are scheduled to be held in Singapore by 5 December 2030 to elect members of Parliament. They will be the seventeenth general elections since the introduction of self-government in 1959 and the fifteenth since independence in 1965, and will elect the 16th Parliament of Singapore.
The previous general election in 2025 saw an increase in the share of the nationwide popular vote for both the governing People's Action Party (PAP) and the opposition Workers' Party (WP), allowing the former to retain its supermajority held since independence. The WP retained all ten seats [a] which it won in 2020 and gained two seats for non-constituency Members of Parliament (NCMPs), bringing its total representation in Parliament to twelve seats, the most ever held by a single opposition party. On the other hand, most opposition parties suffered a drop in support, with the Progress Singapore Party (PSP) losing both NCMP seats it had gained in 2020. [1] Voter turnout in 2025 was 92.47%, the lowest since 1968. [2] The PAP won the five seats of Marine Parade–Braddell Heights Group Representation Constituency (GRC) [3] in the first walkover since 2011. [4]
In the first few months of the 15th Parliament, Leader of the House Indranee Rajah moved a motion on 14 January 2026 to declare WP secretary-general Pritam Singh "unsuitable" as leader of the opposition. The motion came in the wake of Singh's conviction on two counts of providing a false testimony to the Committee of Privileges in 2025. The vote was split along party lines; all PAP and nominated MPs (NMPs) in attendance voted in favour, while all WP MPs, other than absent NCMP Eileen Chong, voted against the motion despite the party whip being lifted. During the debate, Indranee said that Parliament could not remove Singh by itself and that the authority to appoint or remove the leader of the opposition rested with the Prime Minister. [5] [6] [7] The following day, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong removed Singh as leader of the opposition, inviting the WP to nominate another of its elected MPs as a replacement. [8] After deliberation, the WP rejected the offer through its website on 21 January, claiming that the leader of the largest opposition party in Parliament was themselves the leader of the opposition. [9] In response, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) announced on the same day that it had accepted the rejection and that the position would remain vacant until the party was "ready to nominate someone to take on the responsibility". [10]
According to Article 65(4) of the Constitution, the maximum term of any given Parliament is five years from the date of its first sitting following the previous general election, after which it is dissolved automatically. However, the Prime Minister may advise the President to dissolve Parliament earlier should a vote of confidence pass with the support of a majority of sitting MPs. [11] A general election must be held within three months after Parliament is dissolved. [12]
The table below lists political parties elected or nominated in Parliament after the 2025 general election:
| Name | Leader | Ideology | Votes (%) | Seats | Status | |||
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| Last election | Non-constituency | Current seats | ||||||
| People's Action Party (PAP) | Lawrence Wong | Conservatism Civic nationalism | 87 / 97 | Government | 87 / 99 | Governing party | ||
| Workers' Party (WP) | – | Social democracy Parliamentarism | 10 / 97 | 2 / 2 | 12 / 99 | Opposition | ||
| Vacant | N/a | |||||||
| General elections | |
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| By-elections | |
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| Local elections | |
| Referendums | |
‡ uncontested | |
