Singapore GRC and SMC Election Results: How to Read the Tables
Singapore’s official election tables report one candidate per SMC and a team per GRC. Vote percentages use valid votes in each contested division, while turnout includes rejected ballots and an uncontested division has no poll totals.
Timeline
- 2025-05-03: Polling took place in contested electoral divisions in Singapore.
- 2025-05-15: The Elections Department completed the overseas count and released total valid votes by division.
- Final result: The official table combined accepted overseas votes with local valid votes and displayed each party or candidate’s share.
Singapore’s official 2025 result page mixes two kinds of parliamentary constituency. In a Single Member Constituency, voters choose among individual candidates and the winner becomes the division’s one MP. In a Group Representation Constituency, voters choose a team whose members belong to the same party or stand together as independents; the winning team fills all the GRC’s seats. [1][2]
The table structure reflects that difference. An SMC row lists one candidate name for each party or independent entry, followed by that entry’s vote total and percentage. A GRC row lists every member of the team above a single party label and a single combined vote total. The repeated names in a GRC are not separate candidate-level vote counts because electors vote for the team. [1][2]
Percentages on the final page represent each entry’s share of valid votes in that electoral division. For example, the Aljunied table reports 79,254 votes, or 59.71%, for the Workers’ Party team and 53,471, or 40.29%, for the People’s Action Party team. The percentages sum to 100% because rejected ballots are outside the valid-vote denominator. [1][3]
“Number of Electors” is not the same as votes cast. It is the size of the register for that division. Some registered electors do not cast a ballot, and some submitted ballots are rejected. The Elections Department reported 2,438,610 local and overseas votes cast across contested divisions in GE2025, including 42,945 rejected votes, equal to 92.83% of 2,627,026 registered electors in those divisions. [3]
The final figures include accepted overseas votes. The May 15 release separates local valid votes, overseas valid votes and the combined total for each contested division. Overseas counting occurs later so ballot materials can reach Singapore. Readers comparing election-night reports with the final table should therefore use the overseas-inclusive totals rather than assume every early number is the final certified figure. [3][4]
An uncontested entry has no vote percentage. In 2025, Marine Parade–Braddell Heights was marked “Uncontested” for the PAP team. That means no poll was required to choose between competing entries in that division, so the result page does not invent a vote total or treat the number of registered electors as votes for the team. [1]
To identify the winner, compare valid-vote totals within one division under Singapore’s simple-majority system. Do not add percentages across GRCs and SMCs as if they were equally sized national units, and do not divide a GRC team total by its number of candidates. For turnout, rejected ballots or nationwide participation, use the Elections Department’s separate total-votes release alongside the constituency result table. [1][2][3]
Sources
- Singapore Elections Department — 2025 Parliamentary General Election results
- Singapore Elections Department — Types of electoral divisions
- Singapore Elections Department — Total votes cast at General Election 2025
- Singapore Elections Department — Counting at parliamentary elections