page_title: 2011 Singaporean presidential election
section_title: Timeline
hierarchical_section_title: 2011 Singaporean presidential election / Timeline
caption_attribution_description: English: Dr. Tan Cheng Bock, with Mrs. Cecilia Tan, waving to reporters after disembarking from the van at the Nomination Centre.
context_page_description: The Singaporean presidential election of 2011 was the fourth Singaporean presidential election, held on 27 August 2011 after president S. R. Nathan term ended in September 2011. Nomination Day for eligible candidates was held on 17 August 2011.
  Four candidates were issued certificates of eligibility by Singapore's Presidential Elections Committee, and all four were nominated on Nomination Day. This was the second contested election since the 1993 election and the first presidential race with more than two candidates in Singaporean history. With 2,153,014 local votes and 3,375 overseas votes cast, this was also the biggest democratic exercise in Singapore to date.
  The Returning Officer Yam Ah Mee declared Tony Tan as president-elect with a vote share of 35.20% winning by a narrow 0.34% margin over Tan Cheng Bock who has 34.85% of the votes. Tony Tan was inaugurated as the seventh President of Singapore on 1 September 2011.
context_section_description: All the dates and time reflected in this timeline are in Local Singaporean Time (SST).
caption: Tan Cheng Bock waving to reporters at the nomination centre.
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