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Presidential elections were scheduled to be held in Singapore on 13 September 2017. Following amendments to the Constitution of Singapore, which resulted in the elections being reserved for candidates from the Malay community, incumbent president Tony Tan, who had been elected in 2011, was ineligible to seek re-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 ...
Because of the stringent requirements needed to run for presidential elections, only three out of the seven elections had contests (1993, 2011 and 2023), while the rest were walkovers. An amendment to the Constitution in 2016 saw the 2017 election become reserved for a certain community ( Malay community in the case), resulting in that year's ...
2017 6 years 2011: 745,693 (35.20%) [27] Chairman of the Council of Presidential Advisers J. Y. Pillay as Acting President 1 September 2017–14 September 2017 [28] 8: Halimah Yacob (born 1954) Speaker of Parliament: 14 September 2017 14 September 2023 6 years 2017: Uncontested [29] 9: Tharman Shanmugaratnam (born 1957) Senior Minister: 14 ...
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 unopposedin 2017, did not seek re-election.
2020 Singaporean general election. General elections were held in Singapore on Friday, 10 July 2020 to elect 93 members [ c ] to the Parliament of Singapore across 31 constituencies. [ d ] Parliament was dissolved and the general election called by President Halimah Yacob on 23 June, on the advice of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. [ 2 ]
Nomination day for the 2017 Presidential Election: former Speaker Halimah Yacob won the election via an uncontested walkover since she was the only candidate eligible to contest in the election (the third such walkover after 1999 and 2005), [185] and was inaugurated as the eighth, and first female President of Singapore a day later. [186] 15 ...
The 2017 United States elections were held, in large part, on Tuesday, November 7, 2017. This off-year election featured gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey , as well as state legislative elections in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature and in the Virginia House of Delegates (the lower house of the Virginia legislature).