2020 Singaporean general election
A general election was held in Singapore on 10 July 2020.[6] 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.[7][8] 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.[9]
| Party | Abbreviation | Leader | Year formed | Seats before GE2020 | Parliamentary presence |
 People's Action Party | PAP | Lee Hsien Loong | 1954 | 82 | Legislative Assembly: 1955–1965[10] City Council Elections: 1957–1965[11] Singapore Parliament: 1965–Present |
| Workers' Party | WP | Pritam Singh | 1957 | 6 + 3 NCMPs | Legislative Assembly: 1961–1963[12] City Council Elections: 1957–1959[11] 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 |
.svg.png.webp){kind=logo} 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 | — |
| Parties and alliances | Leader | Contested seats | Divs won | Seats won | Popular vote | % of valid votes | +/- | % of valid votes in wards contested by party | +/- | ||||||
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| 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 |  8.63 |
61.23 | 8.63 | ||
| Workers' Party | Pritam Singh | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 21 | 3 | 10 | 279,922 | 11.22 | 1.26 |
50.49 |  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 | 0.69 |
37.04 | 5.81 | ||
| National Solidarity Party |
Spencer Ng | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 93,653 | 3.75 | 0.22 |
33.15 | 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 | 0.44 |
27.85 | 7.25 | ||
| Singapore People's Party |
Steve Chia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 37,998 | 1.52 | 0.65 |
33.85 | 6.77 | ||
| Singapore Democratic Alliance |
Desmond Lim | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 37,237 | 1.49 | 0.57 |
23.67 | 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 | 0.83 |
28.26 | 5.15 | ||
 Independents |
— | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 655 | 0.03 | 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 | ||||||||||||||
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All 93 elected seats (+2 NCMPs seats) to the Parliament of Singapore 47 elected seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered | 2,651,435 [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 2,540,359 (95.81%)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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