Former senior minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam is leading the race to be Singapore’s next president, with 70 per cent of the vote, based on a sample count released by the Elections Department (ELD) at 10pm on Friday. Former GIC chief investment officer Ng Kok Song, 75,...
This is only the third time that Singaporeans are voting for their president since the elected presidency was introduced in 1991. The first such contested election was in 1993, and the second was in 2011.in Katong and Ang Mo Kio, while Mr Tharman went to his assigned voting station in Bukit Timah in the late afternoon.Speaking to reporters after he cast his ballot, Mr Tharman said the voting process had been very smooth, and commended the election officials for a job well done.
But the situation eased by around 10am, and voting proceeded smoothly through the day, with more than half of all eligible voters having voted by 12pm. An hour to go before polls closed, Mr Ng, who was visiting a polling station at Block 9C Boon Tiong Road, told reporters there: “I can sense a certain enthusiasm to vote. It’s very positive.”
Two of the candidates organised watch parties to await the results, with Mr Ng’s supporters and family members gathered at the office of social media agency Gushcloud and Mr Tan’s supporters gathered in his home.
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