Singapore GE2025: Voters turn up in droves despite morning downpour; 48% have cast their votes as at noon

Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong waves as he leaves the polling station with his wife Loo Tze Lui during the general election, in Singapore May 3, 2025. - Reuters

SINGAPORE: Some of Singapore’s 2.6 million voters got a rainy start at the polls on May 3, with many braving the early morning torrential downpour to cast their votes amid flash-flood warnings in several areas.

Lines started forming about an hour before the 1,240 polling centres, across schools, void decks and Housing Board pavilions, opened their gates at 8am.