Calendar · elections in Singapore
Singapore's general elections have no set day: the Prime Minister advises the President when to dissolve Parliament. The deadline is in the Constitution — five years from the first sitting, then three months to the poll. For the 15th Parliament that means polling day by 5 December 2030 at the latest.
No writ in force · surveys may be published · no election under way
The next elections
Elapsed Presidential poll window After automatic dissolution, before the last polling day
General election · Arts. 65(4), 66
1,490 days at most
The 15th Parliament first sat on 5 September 2025. Unless dissolved sooner it stands dissolved on 5 September 2030, and polling day must fall within three months: by 5 December 2030. The Prime Minister may advise an earlier dissolution at any time; in practice general elections have been called before Parliament reached its automatic dissolution.
Presidential election · Arts. 17A, 20
1,042 days to the term's end
President Tharman's six-year term began on 14 September 2023 and ends on 13 September 2029; the poll may be held from 13 June 2029, three months before. ELD lists the 2029 presidential election as the next election due. Art. 19B reserves an election for a community absent from the five most recent terms; those were held by S R Nathan (twice), Tony Tan, Halimah Yacob and Tharman Shanmugaratnam, so Chinese, Malay and Indian/other presidents have all served and 2029 is expected to be an open election.
General Election 2025 · 22 January 2025 to 5 September 2025
The Prime Minister convenes the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee, chaired by the Secretary to the Prime Minister.
48 days ↓33 electoral divisions (15 SMCs, 8 four-member and 10 five-member GRCs) and 97 seats, up from 93; the report reached the Prime Minister on 7 March.
35 days ↓The President dissolves the 14th Parliament on the Prime Minister's advice and the writ of election is issued the same day. From this day no election survey may be published (PEA s.78C).
8 days ↓Nominations are received from 11am to 12 noon at the nomination centres. Marine Parade–Braddell Heights GRC is uncontested and its PAP team is returned unopposed; campaigning runs until the eve of polling.
9 days ↓From 12 midnight, no election advertising, rallies or canvassing (PEA ss.61C, 80, 80A); party political broadcasts and news reports continue.
1 day ↓Polling stations open 8am to 8pm, and ten overseas polling stations on their own hours. A public holiday. Exit polls are barred until every station has closed (PEA s.78D).
1 day ↓Counted overnight: the PAP wins 87 seats with 65.57%, the Workers' Party 10. 2,438,610 votes cast, turnout 92.83% once overseas votes were counted.
15 days ↓Andre Low (WP, Jalan Kayu SMC) and Eileen Chong (WP, Tampines GRC), the best-placed losing opposition candidates, are declared Non-Constituency MPs.
4 days ↓First sitting; Seah Kian Peng is re-elected Speaker. The five-year term runs from this day.
Publishing rules · Parliamentary Elections Act, Presidential Elections Act
Pick any date and time in Singapore. The checker applies the statutory windows of every election we know of — the writ period, Cooling-off Day and polling hours — the same code that decides what this site withholds.
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The rules, in full
From the day the writ is issued until every polling station has closed, no one may publish the result of an election survey, or anything purporting to be one (PEA s.78C; PrEA s.60B). Fine up to $1,500, jail up to 12 months, or both. This site also withholds prediction-market prices for the same window.
On polling day, until every station has closed, no statement of how voters voted based on what they said after voting, and no forecast from it (PEA s.78D; PrEA s.60C).
From midnight on the eve of polling day to the close of polls, no election advertising (PEA s.61C; PrEA s.42C), no canvassing or house visits (s.80) and no election meetings (s.80A). Exceptions include news by authorised news agencies, party political broadcasts, badges and lawful advertising already online (s.61D).
Online election advertising must say who published it and on whose behalf (s.61B); unauthorised third-party advertising (s.61K) and advertising by foreigners (s.61M) are offences. Since 22 January 2025, s.61MA bans realistic digitally generated or manipulated depictions of a candidate saying or doing something they did not (Elections (Integrity of Online Advertising) (Amendment) Act 2024).
The Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act 2019 lets a minister direct a correction notice or removal of an online statement of fact the minister deems false and against the public interest; the directions can be challenged in the High Court. During an election period the powers pass to an alternate authority, a public officer appointed before the period begins.
How a general election runs
The Prime Minister convenes the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee; its report, published as a White Paper, fixes the constituencies and the number of seats.
On the Prime Minister's advice the President dissolves Parliament (or it dissolves itself five years after its first sitting) and issues the writ of election, naming Nomination Day. Election surveys may not be published from this day.
Candidates file their papers between 11am and 12 noon with the deposit; a GRC team must include its minority member, certified by a community committee. A seat with only one nomination is won unopposed.
Rallies, walkabouts, party political broadcasts and online advertising, which must name its publisher. In 2025 the campaign ran 9 days.
The eve of polling: no election advertising, rallies or canvassing from 12 midnight.
A public holiday. Polls open 8am to 8pm; voting is compulsory. Overseas electors vote by post or at overseas polling stations. No exit polls until every station has closed.
Ballot boxes are sealed and taken to counting centres. ELD publishes a sample count for each constituency early in the count, then the Returning Officer declares each result.
Where overseas votes could change a result, the declaration waits for them. NCMPs are declared if fewer than twelve opposition MPs were elected, the Cabinet is sworn in, and the new Parliament first sits: on 5 September in 2025, four months after polling.
By-elections
A vacant SMC seat must be filled by a by-election; a vacancy in a GRC need not be unless every member of the team has left (Parliamentary Elections Act s.24(2A)).
Now: Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim (PAP) left Parliament on 20 July 2026, leaving Marine Parade–Braddell Heights GRC with four MPs. Resigned as Minister of State, MP and PAP member; the PAP said there would be no by-election and the four remaining GRC MPs cover Kembangan-Chai Chee.
The last by-election was in Bukit Batok SMC on 7 May 2016. Held by the PAP (Murali Pillai).
| Polling day | Constituency | Won by |
|---|---|---|
| 7 May 2016 | Bukit Batok | PAP 61.2% |
| 26 Jan 2013 | Punggol East | WP 54.5% |
| 26 May 2012 | Hougang | WP 62.1% |
| 19 Dec 1992 | Marine Parade | PAP 72.9% |
| 31 Oct 1981 | Anson | WP 51.9% |
| 10 Feb 1979 | Telok Blangah | PAP 61.2% |
| 10 Feb 1979 | Sembawang | PAP 78.4% |
| 10 Feb 1979 | Potong Pasir | PAP 66.8% |
| 10 Feb 1979 | Nee Soon | PAP |
| 10 Feb 1979 | Mountbatten | PAP 79.9% |
| 10 Feb 1979 | Geylang West | PAP |
| 10 Feb 1979 | Anson | PAP 86.2% |
| 23 Jul 1977 | Bukit Merah | PAP 72.2% |
| 14 May 1977 | Radin Mas | PAP 70.6% |
| 18 Apr 1970 | Whampoa | PAP |
| 18 Apr 1970 | Ulu Pandan | PAP 75.5% |
| 18 Apr 1970 | Kampong Kapor | PAP 62.4% |
| 18 Apr 1970 | Havelock | PAP |
| 18 Apr 1970 | Delta | PAP |
| 7 Mar 1967 | Thomson | PAP 83.6% |
| 7 Mar 1967 | Tampines | PAP |
| 7 Mar 1967 | Jalan Kayu | PAP |
| 7 Mar 1967 | Havelock | PAP |
| 7 Mar 1967 | Bukit Panjang | PAP |
| 1966 · unopposed | Paya Lebar | PAP |
| 1966 · unopposed | Jurong | PAP |
| 1966 · unopposed | Joo Chiat | PAP |
| 1966 · unopposed | Crawford | PAP |
| 1966 · unopposed | Chua Chu Kang | PAP |
| 1966 · unopposed | Bukit Timah | PAP |
| 18 Jan 1966 | Bukit Merah | PAP 82.9% |