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There are currently two types of Elections in Singapore in Singapore: parliamentary; and (since 1993) presidential. A referendum may also be held for important national issues, although it has been held only once in Singapore's political history for the 1962 merger referendum. Calls for a national referendum has been made since then, including the issue over the building of casinos in Singapore.

The Constitution of Singapore requires that each Parliament must be dissolved no later than five years after its beginning or first sitting and that parliamentary elections must be held no later than three months from the dissolution of the previous Parliament. Singapore has a dominant party political system with the People's Action Party in power since gaining full internal self-rule in 1959 from the British. Singapore merged with Malaysia on September 16, 1963 but separated August 9, 1965. Opposition parties exist, but have never been able to get enough votes to gain control of Singapore's government. Hence Singapore has been governed by one single party since 1959. In the 2006 general election, 47 out of 84 seats were contested by the PAP. Eventually 82 seats went to the PAP as in the previous 2001 general election with 66% of the popular vote. The opposition won 2 seats and received 34% of the votes, an increase from 25% in previous election.

1 2006 General election
2 2005 Presidential election
3 2001 Parliamentary election
4 Past elections
5 Other elections
6 See also
7 External links

Main article: Singapore general election, 2006

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**Summary of the 6 May 2006 Parliament of Singapore 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 of Singapore	Low Thia Khiang	20	1	183,604	16.34	+13.30
	Singapore Democratic Alliance: National Solidarity Party Pertubuhan Kebangsaan Melayu Singapura (Singapore Malay National Organisation) Singapore Justice Party Singapore People's Party	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

The Singapore presidential election of 2005 was to be held on 27 August 2005 to elect the President of Singapore. Since on August 13, 2005, the Presidential Elections Committee announced that Sellapan Ramanathan was the only candidate that had received the Certificate of Eligibility, he was named the next President without election.

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**Summary of the 27 August 2005 Singapore presidential election results**
Candidate	Votes
Sellapan Ramanathan	without ballot

:More info: Singapore presidential election, 2005

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**Summary of the 3 November 2001 Parliament of Singapore election results**
Parties and alliances		Leader	Contested seats	Seats won	Popular vote	%	+/-
	People's Action Party	Goh Chok Tong	84	82^†	470,765	75.3%	+10.3%
	Singapore Democratic Alliance: National Solidarity Party Pertubuhan Kebangsaan Melayu Singapura (Singapore Malay National Organisation) Singapore Justice Party Singapore People's Party	Chiam See Tong	13	1	75,248	12.0%	-
	Singapore Democratic Party	Chee Soon Juan	11	0	50,607	8.1%	-2.5%
	Workers' Party of Singapore	Low Thia Khiang	2	1	19,060	3.0%	-11.2%
	Democratic Progressive Party	Tan Lead Shake	2	0	5,334	0.9%	+0.2%
	Independent		2	0	4,253	0.7%	-
Total				84	625,267	100.0
Spoilt votes					13,636	-
Did not vote					36,403	-
Total voting electorate					675,306	-
^† includes uncontested victories, Source: http://www.singapore-elections.com/