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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.
Singapore names 3 candidates for presidential election. Xinghui Kok. August 22, 2023 at 2:40 AM ... Tan was also one of four candidates who ran for president in the 2011 election. Singapore's ...
Singapore law does not prevent political parties, the Government, or non-governmental bodies with close government ties from endorsing candidates. The first presidential election in Singapore in 1993 pitted Ong Teng Cheong, a former PAP Member of Parliament who had been Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the National Trades Union Congress ...
On 8 June 2023, Tharman announced his intention to be a candidate in the 2023 presidential election. [64] [65] 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.
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 ...
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 September 2023 Incumbent (14 September 2029 ...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday said he will hand leadership of the ruling People's Action Party to Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong as soon as the party ...
1 September – 2023 Singaporean presidential election: Singaporeans vote for their 9th president. Former senior minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam is elected with 1,746,427 votes (70.40%). Ng Kok Song came second with 390,041 votes (15.72%), with Tan Kin Lian getting 344,292 votes (13.88%). Ng had earlier conceded after the sample counts showed a ...