1988 Singaporean general election

General elections were held in Singapore on 3 September 1988 to elect members of Parliament. They were the eighth general elections since the introduction of self-government in 1959 and the sixth since independence in 1965. This election was Lee Kuan Yew's final general election as Prime Minister before he passed the leadership to Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong in 1990.

The elections were notable for the debut of Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs), a new electoral arrangement introduced by the government. GRCs required candidates to contest in teams, with the inclusion of at least one member from a minority ethnic community. The scheme began with constituencies represented by teams of three Members of Parliament. While presented as a safeguard for multiracialism, the system was heavily criticised by opposition politicians and parties for increasing the barriers to entry for smaller parties, who found it difficult to field sufficiently strong teams to contest effectively in GRCs.

The People's Action Party (PAP), which had governed since independence, secured a landslide victory winning all but one of the 81 parliamentary seats. The only opposition candidate elected was Chiam See Tong of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), who retained his seat in Potong Pasir SMC. In addition, a single Non-constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP) seat was awarded to Lee Siew Choh from the Workers' Party (WP), who had contested in Eunos GRC. He became the first opposition politician to accept an NCMP seat, following previous rejections of such offers in 1984. In addition, while the total number of eligible voters had exceeded one million in 1976, this election marked the first occasion where over one million voters were able to cast their ballots in contested constituencies.