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On 20 April 2016, President Tony Tan Keng Yam issued the writs of election adjourning Nominations to be held on 27 April at Keming Primary School and voting on 7 May. . Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said that after the annual Budget Statement was passed (by the Singapore Parliament on 14 April, with President Tan announcing his assent on 15 April), [11] Deputy Prime Minister Teo ...
The Marsiling–Yew Tee Group Representation Constituency is a four-member Group Representation Constituency (GRC) in the north-western part of Singapore.The constituency encompasses Chua Chu Kang (Yew Tee), Sungei Kadut Industrial Area, Kranji, Woodlands Checkpoint, and the west part of Woodlands.
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The constituency was first contested in the 2001 general election with the People's Action Party against the Singapore Democratic Party. The ward won a walkover in 2006 before facing another contest with the National Solidarity Party (2011), Singaporeans First (2015) and Red Dot United (2020); however, this GRC has always been held by the ...
General elections were held in Singapore on Friday, 10 July 2020 to elect 93 members [b] to the Parliament of Singapore across 31 constituencies. [c] 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]
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.
[12] [13] On 2 September 2023, Tharman was announced as the winner after receiving 70.41% [14] of the vote in a landslide victory and was elected as the ninth president of Singapore. [15] He is the first presidential candidate not of Chinese descent to win in a contested presidential election in Singapore. [16]