List of elected Singaporean Members of Parliament from opposition parties

This is a list of members of the Parliament of Singapore who have been directly elected as representatives of an opposition party since 1968, having secured victory in electoral divisions.

In Singapore, the People's Action Party (PAP) has governed continuously since 1959, when Singapore was a British colony, maintaining a supermajority in Parliament. Consequently, the presence of opposition Members of Parliament (MP) has remained limited. Although Singapore became independent in 1965, it was not until 1981 that a non-PAP MP was directly elected in independent Singapore.

This list excludes non-constituency MPs (NCMPs). Group representation constituencies (GRCs) were introduced at the 1988 general election, while constituencies with a single MP were renamed single-member constituencies (SMCs). However, it was not until 23 years later that an opposition party achieved victory in one; the Workers' Party (WP) created that record by gaining Aljunied GRC from the PAP in the 2011 general election. The WP has remained the most prominent opposition force in Singaporean politics, with 19 distinct WP politicians having been directly elected to Parliament in post-independence Singapore.

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Election MP(s) Constituency Party ParliamentNumber ofNCMPs appointed 1981 (b) J. B. Jeyaretnam Anson Workers' Party (WP) 5thScheme didnot exist 1984 Chiam See Tong Potong Pasir Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) 6th1 J. B. Jeyaretnam Anson WP 1988 Chiam See Tong Potong Pasir SMC SDP 7th2 1991 Cheo Chai Chen Nee Soon Central SMC SDP 8thN/A Chiam See Tong Potong Pasir SMC SDP Ling How Doong Bukit Gombak SMC SDP Low Thia Khiang Hougang SMC WP 1997 Chiam See Tong Potong Pasir SMC Singapore People's Party (SPP) 9th1 Low Thia Khiang Hougang SMC WP 2001 Chiam See Tong Potong Pasir SMC Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA) 10th1 Low Thia Khiang Hougang SMC WP 2006 Chiam See Tong Potong Pasir SMC SDA 11th1 Low Thia Khiang Hougang SMC WP 2011 Chen Show MaoSylvia LimLow Thia KhiangFaisal ManapPritam Singh Aljunied GRC WP 12th3 Yaw Shin Leong Hougang SMC WP 2012 (b) Png Eng Huat Hougang SMC WPN/A 2013 (b) Lee Li Lian Punggol East SMC WPN/A 2015 Chen Show MaoSylvia LimLow Thia KhiangFaisal ManapPritam Singh Aljunied GRC WP 13th3 Png Eng Huat Hougang SMC WP 2020 Gerald GiamSylvia LimFaisal ManapLeon PereraPritam Singh Aljunied GRC WP 14th2 Dennis Tan Hougang SMC WP Louis ChuaHe Ting RuJamus LimRaeesah Khan Sengkang GRC WP 2025 Fadli FawziGerald GiamSylvia LimPritam SinghKenneth Tiong Aljunied GRC WP 15th2 Dennis Tan Hougang SMC WP Abdul MuhaiminLouis ChuaHe Ting RuJamus Lim Sengkang GRC WP

(b) = by-election

See also Leader of the Opposition (Singapore)

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