There were 6,649 registered overseas voters in this election. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE – About 76 per cent of overseas Singaporeans voted for Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam as their new president, a slightly higher proportion than voters in Singapore.After the inclusion of overseas votes, which were counted on Tuesday at the counting centre at the Elections Department, the total number of votes cast for the 2023 Presidential Election is 2,534,711, including rejected votes.There were a total of 6,649 registered overseas voters.
Of the 3,217 overseas voters, 2,454 Singaporeans cast their votes at the 10 overseas polling stations in Beijing, Canberra, Dubai, Hong Kong, London, New York, San Francisco, Shanghai, Tokyo and Washington. While 2,997 out of 3,432 postal voters downloaded the postal ballots, 1,345 were received by the deadline of Sept 11 and accepted for counting.
The number of overseas votes for Mr Tharman is 2,834 , while presidential candidates Ng Kok Song and Tan Kin Lian received 595 votes and 292 votes , respectively. In the early hours of Sept 2, Mr Tharman scored a landslide win with 70.4 per cent of the vote, while Mr Ng and Mr Tan – who are both 75 – received 15.72 per cent and 13.88 per cent, respectively.
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