One of three men - Ng Kok Song, Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Tan Kin Lian - will become the country's ninth President.
As of 5pm, 2,302,996 Singaporeans have cast their votes at the 1,264 polling stations islandwide, said the Elections Department Singapore . Polls close at 8pm.will be done to get an early indication of the possible outcome.
A check on the ELD website at 8.35am showed that between 141 and 160 people were in the queue. But the bottleneck seemed to clear about 15 minutes later. In a statement just before 10am, ELD said that the queue situation has improved at most polling stations. This is the first time a polling station was set up in a nursing home. Previously, residents would have to be brought to a polling station outside of the nursing home.The nursing home's chief operating officer Kate Koh said: "I was quite happy to see that the residents look happy. Some expressed their keenness to vote.
Presidential candidate Ng Kok Song and his fiancee Sybil Lau arriving at a polling station in Katong on Sep 1, 2023.
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