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| Registered | 2,709,455 ( 7.66%)[a] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 93.41% ( 1.39pp)[a] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
Three candidates ran for the non-partisan position: Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Ng Kok Song, and Tan Kin Lian, who were all independents or had resigned from any political parties that they had previously been members of. They were all issued the Certificate of Eligibility (COE), and a community certificate, to be able to contest in the elections, per the eligibility requirements.
Tharman won a majority of the votes, at 70.41% of the votes and winning by a record margin. He also became the first non-Chinese candidate to be directly elected to the presidency.[1] Ng received 15.72% of the vote and two-time presidential candidate Tan received 13.87%, the latter having improved his performance over 2011 when he had done so poorly as to lose his election deposit. Tharman was inaugurated on 14 September as the ninth president of Singapore.[2]
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- ^ Wong, Tessa (2 September 2023). "Tharman Shanmugaratnam: Singapore picks a president who could've been much more". BBC News. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
- ^ Goh, Yan Han (11 August 2023). "Singapore Presidential Election 2023: Polling Day on Sept 1, Nomination Day on Aug 22". The Straits Times. ISSN 0585-3923. Archived from the original on 30 August 2023. Retrieved 11 August 2023.