Presidential elections in Singapore
Election results
Some information in the table above was obtained from Presidential elections results, Elections Department, 7 November 2008, archived from the original on 2 September 2010, retrieved 2 September 2010.

Presidential elections in Singapore

Section Title: Election results
Table Section Text: Some information in the table above was obtained from Presidential elections results, Elections Department, 7 November 2008, archived from the original on 2 September 2010, retrieved 2 September 2010.

Year	Potential candidates who applied for certificates of eligibility	Eligible candidate(s)	Nomination day	Polling day	Votes polled (% of valid votes)	Candidate elected President

1993	Chua Kim Yeow J.B. Jeyaretnam Ong Teng Cheong Tan Soo Phuan	Chua Kim Yeow	18 August 1993	28 August 1993	670,358 (41.31%)	Ong Teng Cheong

952,513 (58.69%)

1999	S. R. Nathan Ooi Boon Ewe Tan Soo Phuan	S. R. Nathan	18 August 1999	uncontested	S. R. Nathan

2005	Andrew Kuan S. R. Nathan Ooi Boon Ewe Ramachandran Govindasamy Naidu	S. R. Nathan	17 August 2005	uncontested	S. R. Nathan

2011	Andrew Kuan Ooi Boon Ewe Tan Cheng Bock Tan Jee Say Tan Kin Lian Tony Tan Keng Yam	Tan Cheng Bock	17 August 2011	27 August 2011	738,311 (34.85%)	Tony Tan Keng Yam

Tan Jee Say	530,441 (25.04%)

Tan Kin Lian	104,095 (4.91%)

745,693 (35.20%)

2017	Shirwin Eu Farid Khan Halimah Yacob Mohamed Salleh Marican Ooi Boon Ewe	Halimah Yacob	13 September 2017	uncontested	Halimah Yacob

Sentence(s)

The first presidential election in Singapore in 1993 pitted Ong Teng Cheong against Chua Kim Yeow.

final_sentence: The first presidential election in Singapore in 1993 pitted Ong Teng Cheong against Chua Kim Yeow.