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12th Parliament
2011-10-10 – 2015-08-25
Party Groupings
People’s Action Party
80 seats
Nominated Member of Parliament
18 seats
Workers’ Party
10 seats
Singapore People’s Party
1 seat
What’s in this dataset?
As much as we know. Here’s a taste of the information we have so far.
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Benedict Tan
Nominated Member of Parliament
| Gender | male |
|---|
Halimah Yacob
People’s Action Party
| Gender | female |
|---|---|
| Born | 1954-08-23 |
| wikidata | Q5642345 |
|---|---|
| viaf | 6647152502735410800008 |
Hawazi Daipi
People’s Action Party
| Gender | male |
|---|
Hri Kumar Nair
People’s Action Party
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1966-06-16 |
| wikidata | Q189122 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/0ff5zg |
K Karthikeyan
Nominated Member of Parliament
Laurence Lien
Nominated Member of Parliament
| Gender | male |
|---|
Lina Chiam
Singapore People’s Party
| Gender | female |
|---|
Mary Liew
Nominated Member of Parliament
| Gender | female |
|---|
Masagos Zulkifli Bin Masagos Mohamad
People’s Action Party
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1963-04-16 |
| wikidata | Q17722375 |
|---|
Michael Palmer
People’s Action Party (until 2012-12-12)
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1968-07-14 |
| wikidata | Q6833355 |
|---|
Mohd Ismail Hussein
Nominated Member of Parliament
| Gender | male |
|---|
Nicholas Fang
Nominated Member of Parliament
| Gender | male |
|---|
R Dhinakaran
Nominated Member of Parliament
| Gender | male |
|---|
Rita Soh Siow Lan
Nominated Member of Parliament
| Gender | female |
|---|
Tan Su Shan
Nominated Member of Parliament
| Gender | female |
|---|
Teo Siong Seng
Nominated Member of Parliament
| Gender | male |
|---|
Tharman Shanmugaratnam
People’s Action Party
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1957-01-22 |
| wikidata | Q983752 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/0bd19b |
Tin Pei Ling
People’s Action Party
| Gender | female |
|---|---|
| Born | 1983-07-08 |
| wikidata | Q7807793 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/0gmb_3d |
Vivian Balakrishnan
People’s Action Party
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1961-01-25 |
| wikidata | Q7937671 |
|---|---|
| lcauth | no2015068142 |
Wong Kan Seng
People’s Action Party
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1946-09-08 |
| wikidata | Q461128 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/071b2h |
| gtaa | 171512 |
Zainudin Nordin
People’s Action Party
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1963-07-03 |
| wikidata | Q8064862 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/03gtp2b |
Ruby programmer? It’s easy to use this data in your own app! Use the gem like this:
require 'everypolitician'
country = Everypolitician::Index.new.country('Singapore')
house = country.legislature('Parliament')
house.popolo.terms.find_by(id: 'term/12').memberships.each do |membership|
puts "#{membership.person.name} (#{membership.party.name}): #{membership.person.gender}"
end
Main Sources: http://www.parliament.gov.sg, http://wikidata.org/, http://gender-balance.org/
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