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8th Parliament

1992-01-06 – 1996-12-15

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Party Groupings

  • People’s Action Party

    78 seats

  • Nominated Member of Parliament

    9 seats

  • Singapore Democratic Party

    2 seats

  • Singapore Democratic Alliance

    1 seat

  • Workers’ Party

    1 seat

What’s in this dataset?

As much as we know. Here’s a taste of the information we have so far.

Biographical 43%
Social links 2%
Contact details 0%
Identifiers 42%

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Abdullah Bin Tarmugi

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1944-08-25
wikidata Q4666073
lcauth nr95019824
viaf 9735242

Ahmad Mattar

People’s Action Party

Beng Kian Lam, Arthur

People’s Action Party

Ch'ng Jit Koon

People’s Action Party

Chandra Das, S.

People’s Action Party

Charles Chong

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1953-06-24
wikidata Q5076232

Chay Wai Chuen

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1950-03-05
wikidata Q5088602

Chen Koon Lap, Kenneth

People’s Action Party

Chen Seow Phun, John, Dr

People’s Action Party

Chen Tien Lap, Bernard

People’s Action Party

Cheo Chai Chen

Singapore Democratic Party

Gender male
wikidata Q5091569

Chew Heng Ching

People’s Action Party

Chiam See Tong

Singapore Democratic Alliance

Gender male
Born 1935-03-12
wikidata Q1071599
freebase /m/05cdjc
lcauth n2014218079
viaf 313409819

Chin Harn Tong

People’s Action Party

Chng Hee Kok

People’s Action Party

Choo Wee Khiang

People’s Action Party

Gender male
wikidata Q5104732

Chua Teck Chew, Robert

Nominated Member of Parliament

Davinder Singh

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1957-08-01
wikidata Q5241790
quora Davinder-Singh-66

De Payva, John

Nominated Member of Parliament

Goh Chee Wee

People’s Action Party

Goh Chok Tong

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1941-05-20
wikidata Q313300
freebase /m/01q3zn
lcauth n89177624
viaf 28663326
isni 0000 0001 1440 4805

Goh Choon Kang

People’s Action Party

Harun Bin A Ghani

People’s Action Party

Heng Chiang Meng

People’s Action Party

Ho Kah Leong

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1937-09-21
wikidata Q58922382

Ho Peng Kee

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1954-05-09
wikidata Q5874137

Ho Tat Kin

People’s Action Party

Hu Tsu Tau, Richard

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1926-10-30
wikidata Q7326576

Ibrahim Othman

People’s Action Party

Imram Bin Mohamed

Nominated Member of Parliament

K Shanmugam

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1960
wikidata Q6324008

Kanwaljit Soin, Dr

Nominated Member of Parliament

Ker Sin Tze, Dr

People’s Action Party

Koh Lip Lin

People’s Action Party

Koo Tsai Kee

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1954-11-29
wikidata Q6430492

Lau Ping Sum

People’s Action Party

Lau Teik Soon

People’s Action Party

Lee Boon Yang

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1947-10-01
wikidata Q6513114

Lee Ching Yen, Stephen

Nominated Member of Parliament

Lee Hsien Loong

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1952-02-10
wikidata Q57643
freebase /m/01_pkq
lcauth n2002091875
viaf 274069438
isni 0000 0003 8412 3050

Lee Kuan Yew

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1923-09-16
Died 2015-03-23
wikidata Q131248
freebase /m/0h9q0
lcauth n50039577
viaf 97994136
isni 0000 0001 1000 4273

Lee Tsao Yuan, Dr

Nominated Member of Parliament

Lee Yiok Seng

People’s Action Party

Lee Yock Suan

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1946-09-30
wikidata Q16107390

Leong Horn Kee

People’s Action Party

Gender male

Lew Syn Pau

People’s Action Party

Gender male
wikidata Q6536062

Lim Boon Heng

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1947-11-18
wikidata Q6548659

Lim Chee Onn

People’s Action Party

Lim Chun Leng, Michael, Dr

People’s Action Party

Lim Hng Kiang

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1954-04-09
wikidata Q6548691

Ling How Doong

Singapore Democratic Party

Gender male
Born 1934
wikidata Q6553695

Loh Meng See

People’s Action Party

Low Seow Chay, Assoc Prof

People’s Action Party

Low Thia Khiang

Workers’ Party

Gender male
Born 1956-09-05
wikidata Q713940
freebase /m/05xgqj

Mah Bow Tan

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1948-09-12
wikidata Q6732618
lcauth no2011067429
viaf 171199131
isni 0000 0001 2012 4666

Matthias Yao Chih

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1956-01-12
wikidata Q6791625

Mohamed Maidin BPM

People’s Action Party

Ong Chit Chung, Dr

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1949-01-28
Died 2008-07-14
wikidata Q7093791
lcauth n90619302
viaf 115720295
isni 0000 0000 8412 6655

Ong Teng Cheong

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1936-01-22
Died 2002-02-08
wikidata Q543664
freebase /m/02jhbs
lcauth n80157759
viaf 13623315
isni 0000 0001 0955 9757

Othman Bin Haron Eusofe

People’s Action Party

Ow Chin Hock

People’s Action Party

Peh Chin Hua

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1947-01-01
wikidata Q24809989

S Jayakumar

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1939-08-12
wikidata Q1521378
freebase /m/044snq
lcauth n83060265
viaf 8758296
isni 0000 0000 8424 3122

S. Dhanabalan

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1937-08-08
wikidata Q2368196
freebase /m/06k8bb

Sidek Bin Saniff

People’s Action Party

Sinnakaruppan, R

People’s Action Party

Sung, Peter

People’s Action Party

Tan Cheng Bock

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1940-04-26
wikidata Q7682028

Tan Keng Yam, Tony

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1940-02-07
wikidata Q38987
freebase /m/061gdl
lcauth no2012007627
viaf 227756618
isni 0000 0003 6363 3115

Tan Soo Khoon

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1949-09-01
Died 2016-07-11
wikidata Q7682122

Tay Eng Soon

People’s Action Party

Teo Chee Hean

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1954-12-27
wikidata Q3518218

Teo Chong Tee

People’s Action Party

Toh Keng Kiat, Dr

Nominated Member of Parliament

Tong Kok Yeo

Nominated Member of Parliament

Umar Abdul Hamid

People’s Action Party

Vasoo, S

People’s Action Party

Wan Soon Bee

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1939
wikidata Q55642637

Wang Kai Yuen

People’s Action Party

Wong Aline K

People’s Action Party

Wong Kan Seng

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1946-09-08
wikidata Q461128
freebase /m/071b2h
gtaa 171512

Wong Kwei Cheong

People’s Action Party

Woon, Walter

Nominated Member of Parliament

Yap Giau Cheng, Eugene

People’s Action Party

Yatiman Yusof

People’s Action Party

Yeo Cheow Tong

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1947-06-22
wikidata Q8052396

Yeo Ning Hong

People’s Action Party

Gender male
wikidata Q8052401

Yeo Toon Chia

People’s Action Party

Yeo Yong-Boon, George

People’s Action Party

Gender male
Born 1954-09-13
wikidata Q58142
freebase /m/084bv4
lcauth no2011097249

Yu-Foo Yee Shoon

People’s Action Party

Gender female
Born 1950-02-17
wikidata Q8059869

Zulkifli Bin Mohamed

People’s Action Party

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/8').memberships.each do |membership|
  puts "#{membership.person.name} (#{membership.party.name}): #{membership.person.gender}"
end

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Main Sources: http://www.parliament.gov.sg, http://wikidata.org/, http://gender-balance.org/

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