Ng Kok Song and Tan Kin Lian are trailing with 16% and 14% respectively. Counting is still in progress.
SINGAPORE: A sample count for Singapore's presidential poll on Friday has former Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam ahead with 70 per cent of the vote, according to results published by the Elections Department at about 1040pm.
Sample counts give an early indication of the election outcome but the"result could be different", said ELD. The counting of votes started after polling stations closed at 8pm, with more than 2.7 million Singaporeans expected to have casted votes in the country's first contested Presidential Election since 2011.
A counting assistant at each counting place will pick a random bundle of 100 ballot papers and count the number of votes for each candidate.
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