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General elections were held in Singapore on Friday, 10 July 2020 to elect 93 members [b] to the Parliament of Singapore across 31 constituencies. [c] Parliament was dissolved and the general election called by President Halimah Yacob on 23 June, on the advice of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. [2]
The 2011 general elections were the sixteenth general elections in Singapore and eleventh since independence. The governing People's Action Party (PAP) sought to secure their 13th consecutive term in office since 1959. This was the second election since Lee Hsien Loong became its Secretary-General.
The election process begins when the President, acting on Cabinet's advice, issues a writ of election addressed to the returning officer.On nomination day, the returning officer and their representatives will be present at designated nomination centres between 11:00 am and 12:00 noon to receive prospective candidates' nomination papers, and political donation certificates certifying that they ...
27 April – SGE: The Nomination Day for the 2011 general election; at the close of nomination, only the five-member People's Action Party team from Tanjong Pagar GRC (which led by Lee Kuan Yew) was elected unopposed.
There are currently two types of elections in Singapore.Parliamentary and presidential elections. According to the Constitution of Singapore, general elections for Parliament must be conducted within three months of the dissolution of Parliament, which has a maximum term of five years from the first sitting of Parliament, and presidential elections are conducted every six years.
During the English-language debate, SDP secretary-general Chee Soon Juan touched on one of its campaign promises of saying no to a 10 million population in Singapore, citing a 2019 article from The Straits Times, to which PAP representative Vivian Balakrishnan replied that the Prime Minister's Office had issued a statement that day "advising ...
Singapore portal The main article for this category is 2011 Singaporean general election . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Singaporean general election, 2011 .
The ruling party won 83 of 93 parliamentary seats in the 2020 election. But, with the election held amid pandemic upheaval, its share of the popular vote dropped to a near-record low, and the 10 ...