ANN/THE STRAITS TIMES – Singaporean President-elect Tharman Shanmugaratnam won about 76 per cent of votes from overseas residents, slightly more than local votes, which came in at about 70.4 per cent of the valid ballots cast by local voters on September 1.
After the inclusion of overseas votes, counted yesterday 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.
This makes up 93.55 per cent of the 2,709,407 registered electors for this election.
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 September 11 and accepted for counting.
The number of overseas votes for Tharman is 2,834 (76.16 per cent), while presidential candidates Ng Kok Song and Tan Kin Lian received 595 votes (15.99 per cent) and 292 votes (7.85 per cent), respectively.
In the early hours of September 2, Tharman, 66, scored a landslide win with 70.4 per cent of the vote, while Ng and Tan – who are both 75 – received 15.72 per cent and 13.88 per cent, respectively.
Tharman will be sworn in as president at the Istana tomorrow.
