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The first results were announced at 1:22 am for Bukit Panjang SMC where the PAP was elected with 53.74% of the vote. The last results came at 3:44 am, when Aljunied GRC and Nee Soon GRC were announced to have been retained by WP and the PAP with 59.93% and 61.90% respectively.
The Presidential Council for Minority Rights (PCMR) is a non-elected government body in Singapore established in 1970, the main function of which is to scrutinize most of the bills passed by Parliament to ensure that they do not discriminate against any racial or religious community.
However, historians saw 1959 as the year Singapore achieved self-governance as a result of the new government, even though the Constitution had been amended in 1958. On the afternoon of 5 June, Lee Kuan Yew was sworn in as the first Prime Minister at City Hall by Yang di Pertuan Negara William Goode along with members of his cabinet.
This results in the suspension of regular services between the Boon Lay and Queenstown stations. [67] Services fully resume on 1 October. [68] 30 September – Passport-less clearance is fully implemented in all four terminals of Changi Airport. Arriving and departing Singapore residents, and departing foreign visitors, can clear immigration by ...
According to Singapore Elections, an archive of Singapore election results, a post made on its Facebook page stated that the presidential election of 2011 "has established a new record of the second-narrowest percentage margin in history, after River Valley in the 1959 elections (margin of around 0.05%) and beating Sepoy Lines in the 1957 city ...
The president of Singapore is the head of state of Singapore, is paid an annual salary of S$1.54 million, or US$1.1 million, and is subject to periodic White Paper reviews. [3] The previous president was Halimah Yacob, who took office on 14 September 2017. She was the first female president in the country's history. [4]
The result was a victory for the People's Action Party, which won 80 of the 81 seats. This was the last time Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew led the PAP in an election. Though the total eligible voter population surpassed one million in 1976 , the 1988 elections was the first time that over one million voters were able to vote in contested ...
Presidential elections were scheduled to be held in Singapore on 13 September 2017. Following amendments to the Constitution of Singapore, which resulted in the elections being reserved for candidates from the Malay community, incumbent president Tony Tan, who had been elected in 2011, was ineligible to seek re-election.