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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.
Tharman Shanmugaratnam. Tharman Shanmugaratnam[ a] (born 25 February 1957), also known mononymously as Tharman, is a Singaporean politician and economist who has been serving as the ninth president of Singapore since 2023. A former member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he was the Member of Parliament (MP) representing Jurong GRC ...
The Elections Department of Singapore ( ELD ), known exonymously as the Elections Department, is a department under the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) of the Government of Singapore which are responsible for overseeing the procedure for elections in Singapore, including parliamentary elections, presidential elections and referendums.
Tan had previously contested the 2011 presidential election, in which he won 34.85% of the popular vote but lost by a small margin of 7,269 votes to former deputy prime minister Tony Tan. An event to commemorate the party's launch was planned at the Singapore Expo on 15 June, but police permits required for the event were not approved in time. [8]
Tan was also one of four candidates who ran for president in the 2011 election. Singapore's president sits for a 6-year term. ($1 = 1.3568 Singapore dollars) (Reporting by Xinghui Kok, Additional ...
Presidential elections have been held since 1993. Under the "Presidential Elections Act", [14] to run for president, one must obtain a "Certificate of Eligibility" from the Presidential Elections Committee. These conditions are: Be a citizen of Singapore. [15] Be at least 45 years of age. [16]
Ong Teng Cheong with President of Argentina Carlos Menem in 1997. However, soon after his election to the presidency in 1993, Ong was tangled in a dispute over the access of information regarding Singapore's financial reserves. The government said it would take 56-man-years to produce a dollar-and-cents value of the immovable assets.
A group of candidates intending to contest an election in a GRC must all be members of the same political party, or a group of independent candidates. The voting age in Singapore is 21 years. Elections are conducted by the Elections Department (ELD), a department under the Prime Minister's Office. [4]