More than 93% expected turnout of voters as Singapore votes for President in test of ruling party’s sway

Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singapore's former deputy prime minister, and his wife Jane Yumiko Ittogi depart a polling station during the presidential election in Singapore, on Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. Singaporeans lined up at polling booths to vote for a new president for the first time in over a decade, posing a test for the ruling party challenged by higher living costs and political scandals. - Bloomberg

SINGAPORE (Bloomberg/The Straits Times): From nuns and nursing home residents, to a hospital patient who came with his leg in a cast, voters turned up at 1,264 polling stations on Friday.

As at 5pm, 2,302,996 Singaporeans – or about 85 per cent of the total number of eligible electors – had voted, said the Elections Department (ELD).