electionstracker

Singapore 1984 general election

What was the result of the 1984 general election in Singapore?

People's Action Party won 77 of 79 seats with 64.8% of the vote.

  • Singapore
  • Held:
  • Final result
  • Elections Department Singapore (data.gov.sg), read 28 October 2026

Which party won the most seats?

Results published by the Elections Department, read : People's Action Party won 77 of 79 seats with 64.8% of the vote.

  • People's Action Party 77 +2 seats 64.8% −12.8 points
  • Workers' Party 1 +1 seat 12.7% +6.4 points
  • Democratic Progressive Party 0 0 seats 9.9% +5.6 points
  • Singapore Democratic Party 1 +1 seat 3.7% +1.9 points
  • United People's Front 0 0 seats 3.1% −1.4 points
  • Barisan Sosialis 0 0 seats 2.8% +0.2 points
  • Singapore Justice Party 0 0 seats 1.2% +0.4 points
  • Singapore Malay National Organisation 0 0 seats 0.5% −1.6 points
  • Seats won
  • Change on the previous election at the right
  • Share of the vote
  • Share at the previous election
  • Change in points at the right

Changes are against the Singapore 1980 general election, party by party.

40 of 79 seats make a majority

Key numbers

  1. 64.8%

    Share of the vote won by People's Action Party

    People's Action Party won 77 of 79 seats. A majority needs 40.

  2. +2 seats

    Seats gained by People's Action Party

    The largest gain in seats compared with 1980.

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
People's Action Party77+264.8−12.8568,310
Workers' Party1+112.7+6.4110,939
Democratic Progressive Party009.9+5.687,197
Singapore Democratic Party1+13.7+1.932,102
United People's Front003.1−1.427,217
Barisan Sosialis002.8+0.224,212
Singapore Justice Party001.2+0.410,906
Independents01.210,586
Singapore Malay National Organisation000.5−1.64,768
Angkatan Islam00.0359

± is the change against the Singapore 1980 general election, party by party. Shares are computed by us from the votes.

Votes by party
  • People's Action Party 568,310
  • Workers' Party 110,939
  • Democratic Progressive Party 87,197
  • Singapore Democratic Party 32,102
  • United People's Front 27,217
  • Barisan Sosialis 24,212
  • Singapore Justice Party 10,906
  • Independents 10,586
  • Singapore Malay National Organisation 4,768
  • Angkatan Islam 359

Contains information from Parliamentary General Election Results by Candidate, accessed on 28 October 2026 from the Elections Department Singapore, which is made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0. Shown in our own layout; the Elections Department does not endorse it.

We summed each party's votes over the constituencies that were contested, and counted its seats from the winner of each constituency: a team wins every seat of its group constituency. Shares are of those votes.

30 of the 79 constituencies were won without a vote, because only one candidate or team stood there. A walkover adds seats and no votes.

How do the votes compare with the seats?

  • People's Action Party64.8% of votes97.5% of seats
  • Workers' Party12.7% of votes1.3% of seats
  • Singapore Democratic Party3.7% of votes1.3% of seats
  • Democratic Progressive Party9.9% of votes0.0% of seats
  • United People's Front3.1% of votes0.0% of seats
  • Barisan Sosialis2.8% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 25.7 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.2 by votes and 1.1 by seats; People's Action Party led Workers' Party by 52.2 points of the vote.

Time and source Data as of

Sources
  • Elections Department Singapore, Parliamentary General Election Results by Candidate, on data.gov.sg. Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0; shown in our own layout, not endorsed by the Department. (source). Licence: Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0