Singapore GE2025: 82 per cent voter turnout recorded as of 5pm, says Election Department

A voter on a wheelchair at a polling station inside a Housing & Development Board (HDB) public housing estate in Singapore, on Saturday, May 3, 2025. Singaporeans began voting Saturday in the ruling party’s biggest electoral test in decades amid concerns over global economic turmoil and high living costs in the Southeast Asian city-state. Photographer: Ore Huiying/Bloomberg

SINGAPORE (Bernama): A total of 2,164,593 Singaporeans turned up to cast their votes for the country’s General Election (GE2025) as of 5 pm, according to the Elections Department (ELD).

"This is about 82 per cent of the 2,627,026 eligible electors in all contested electoral divisions,” it said in a statement on Saturday.

A spokesperson for the department also encouraged voters to avoid any last-minute rush, as polling at all 1,240 stations will close at 8 pm.

In addition to domestic polling, 10 overseas polling stations are operating from 8 am to 8 pm local time in their respective cities. These stations must close no later than the official closing time in Singapore.

NOTE: (For more information on Singapore elections:  the electoral maps -- https://elections.data.gov.sg/en)

The overseas polling stations are located in Dubai, London, Washington D.C., New York, San Francisco, Canberra, Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong cast his vote at the MOE (Evans) Sports Hall around noon, according to The Straits Times (ST).

This marks his first election since taking office in May last year.

Wong is leading the PAP team in the Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC, which they won in GE2020 with a 63.18 per cent share of the vote. - Bernama