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Elected President. Tharman Shanmugaratnam Independent. Presidential elections were held in Singapore on 1 September 2023, the sixth public presidential elections but only the third to be contested by more than one candidate. Incumbent president Halimah Yacob, who had been elected unopposed in 2017, did not seek re-election.
Singapore names 3 candidates for presidential election. ... 2023 at 2:40 AM. By Xinghui Kok ... More than 2.7 million Singaporeans will vote on Sept. 1 in what is the third presidential election ...
Presidential elections in Singapore, in which the President of Singapore is directly elected by a popular vote, were introduced after a constitutional amendment made in 1991. Potential candidates for office must meet stringent qualifications set out in the Constitution. Certificates of Eligibility are issued by the Presidential Elections ...
The 2023 presidential election was the first election with a ballot since the 2011 election. The election was won by Tharman Shanmugaratnam with 1,746,427 (70.40%) of valid votes. Sample counts were announced at about 22:42 and showed that Tharman Shanmugaratnam was leading with 70% of the votes, followed by Ng Kok Song with 16%, and Tan Kin ...
On 8 June 2023, Tharman announced his intention to be a candidate in the 2023 presidential election. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] He resigned from all his positions in the government and as a member of the People's Action Party (PAP) on 7 July in order to stand in the election, as the presidency is a non-partisan office.
By Chen Lin. SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A former member of Singapore's ruling party on Saturday scored a landslide victory to become the city-state's president, in an election seen as a barometer of ...
On 12 June 2023, Goh announced his intention to run for the President of Singapore and stand in the 2023 presidential election. On 18 August 2023, the Elections Department announced that Goh did not qualify to run for the presidential election and therefore did not receive the Certificate of Eligibility.
Lawrence Wong. PAP. General elections are due to be held in Singapore no later than 23 November 2025 to determine the composition of the fifteenth Singaporean Parliament. The elections will be the nineteenth in Singapore since 1948 and the fourteenth since independence . For the first time since the 2006 general election, Lee Hsien Loong will ...