2001 Singaporean general election

2001 Singaporean general election

3 November 2001

All 84 directly elected seats in Parliament (and up to 3 NCMPs)
Registered2,036,923
Turnout94.61% ( 1.30pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Goh Chok Tong Chiam See Tong Low Thia Khiang
Party PAP SDA WP
Leader's seat Marine Parade GRC Potong Pasir SMC Hougang SMC
Last election 64.98%, 81 seats 14.17%, 2 seats
Seats won 82 2 1
Seat change 1 New 1
Popular vote 470,765 75,248 19,060
Percentage 75.29% 12.03% 3.05%
Swing 10.31pp New 11.12pp

Results by constituency

Prime Minister before election

Goh Chok Tong
PAP

Prime Minister after election

Goh Chok Tong
PAP

General elections were held in Singapore on 3 November 2001. President S.R. Nathan dissolved parliament on 18 October 2001 on the advice of Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. The ruling People's Action Party (PAP) won 82 of the 84 elected seats in Parliament in a landslide victory. This was the third consecutive election (and fourth overall) where the PAP returned to power on nomination day due to a majority of seats, 55 of them from ten Group Representation Constituencies, just one seat short from a supermajority, were elected via walkovers, being the most recent election on doing so. This is Goh Chok Tong's last election as Prime Minister before handing to Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

This election marked the first time that total eligible voter population exceeded the 2 million mark, though only one third of them (675,306 of the 2,036,923 eligible voters) had an opportunity to vote. As of the recent election in 2025, this was the most recent general election to date where Workers' Party was not the forefront opposition party representing in the government.