Editing Politics of Singapore (section)

===Women's participation in politics===
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Women traditionally played a significantly smaller role than their male counterparts in Singapore. Nonetheless, in recent years, there is an increasing level of female participation in the Singapore political arena.

On 11 July 2020, [[He Ting Ru]] and [[Raeesah Khan|Raeesah Begum Farid Khan]] became the third and fourth woman from an opposition party to win a seat in parliament by 4,922 votes over the ruling party's candidates in the 2020 general election for [[Sengkang Group Representation Constituency]]([[Group representation constituency|GRC]]). The team was led by He Ting Ru and was first timer Raeesah Khan who proceeded to become the youngest MP in Singapore's Parliamentary history.

[[Lee Li Lian]] was the second woman from an opposition party to win a seat in Parliament with 54.50% of the votes but lost in the following [[2015 Singaporean general election|2015 general election]] by a slim margin. [[Sylvia Lim|Sylvia Lim Swee Lian]], currently the Chairperson of the opposition Workers' Party (WP) and Member of Parliament (MP) representing Aljunied GRC whose team won 54.71% of the votes (54.72% including overseas votes), was the first time that an opposition party won a GRC since the system's introduction on 1 June 1988.

In September 2017, [[Halimah Yacob]] was inaugurated as Singapore's first female President, the only candidate certified as eligible in [[2017 Singaporean presidential election|the election]].