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Political parties in Singapore lists political parties in Singapore. Singapore, led by the People's Action Party, it is a dominant party state. Opposition parties are generally considered to have no real chance of gaining power. There are presently about 23 registered political parties.
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Political parties
Major parties that contested in elections
- National Solidarity Party
- People's Action Party - Ruling party
- Singapore Democratic Alliance
- Pertubuhan Kebangsaan Melayu Singapura (Singapore Malay National Organisation)
- Singapore People's Party
- Singapore Democratic Party
- Workers' Party of Singapore
- Democratic Progressive Party
Minor parties that contested in elections
- Democratic Progressive Party
- Parti Kesatuan Ra'ayat (United Democratic Party)
- United National Front
- United People's Front
Never contested
- Alliance Party Singapore
- Katong United Residents' Association
- National Party of Singapore
- People's Republican Party
- Persatuan Melayu Singapura (Singapore Malay Society)
- Reform Party - New political party in 2008[1]
- Singapore Indian Congress
- Singapore National Front
- National Socialists of Singapore
Compare: election results
| Parties and alliances | Leader | Contested seats |
Seats won | Popular vote | % | +/- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| People's Action Party | Lee Hsien Loong | 84 | 82† | 747,860 | 66.60 | -8.69 |
| Workers' Party | Low Thia Khiang | 20 | 1 | 183,604 | 16.34 | +13.30 |
| Singapore Democratic Alliance | Chiam See Tong | 20 | 1 | 145,902 | 12.99 | +0.96 |
| Singapore Democratic Party | Chee Soon Juan | 7 | 0 | 45,634 | 4.07 | -4.04 |
| Total | 84 | 1,123,000 | 100.0 | |||
| Spoilt votes | 26,727 | - | ||||
| Did not vote | 97,000 | - | ||||
| Total voting electorate | 1,222,884 | - | ||||
| †includes uncontested victories | ||||||
Defunct parties
- Angkatan Islam Singapura (formally known as the Pan-Malayan Islamic Party)
- Barisan Sosialis (merged with the Workers' Party of Singapore in 1988)
- Democratic Party (merged with the Progressive Party to form the Liberal Socialist Party in 1950s)
- Labour Front (merged with Liberal Socialist Party to form Singapore People's Alliance in 1959)
- Labour Party (dissolved in 1955)
- Liberal Socialist Party (dissolved in 1959)
- Malayan Chinese Association (still exists in Malaysia as the Malaysian Chinese Association)
- Malayan Democratic Union (dissolved in 1948)
- Malayan Indian Congress (still exists in Malaysia as the Malaysian Indian Congress)
- Progressive Party (merged with the Democratic Party to form the Liberal Socialist Party)
- Parti Pakyat (still exists in Malaysia as Parti Keadilan Rakyat)
- People's Front, The
- Singapore Alliance
- Singapore Chinese Party
- Singapore Justice Party (merged with the Singapore People's Party in 2001)
- Singapore People's Alliance (dissolved in 1965)
- Singapore Malay Union
- Singapore Socialist Party (merged to form Labour Front)
- Singapore United Front (formally known as the United Front, merged with the Workers' Party of Singapore in 1988)
- United People's Party (dissolved in 1968)
See also
- Index of political parties to browse parties by name
- List of political parties to browse parties by country
- List of political parties by ideology to browse parties by name
- Membership of internationals to browse parties by membership of internationals
- Non-Constituency Member of Parliament
- Group Representation Constituency
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