2023 Singaporean presidential election

2023 Singaporean presidential election

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Registered	2,709,455 ( 7.66%)[a]
Turnout	93.41% ( 1.39pp)[a]
Nominee Tharman Shanmugaratnam Ng Kok Song Tan Kin Lian Party Independent Independent Independent Popular vote 1,749,261 390,636 344,584 Percentage 70.41% 15.72% 13.87%
President before election Halimah Yacob Independent 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.

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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