Singapore Election Voting Age

The official website of the elections department singapore.

Singapore election voting age. Parliamentary and presidential elections. On 15 july 2019 malaysia lowered its voting age from 21 to 18. The number of singapore citizens who registered to vote overseas was 1 017 and of these 553 resided in the 16 constituencies that were contested in the election.

If this is your first time voting. Singapore citizens may check whether they are in the latest. Or if you re curious how polling day will be different from the others that you ve voted at before coz confirm have covid 19 safety measures in place.

Ms lee 42 thinks singapore is already behind the times. The singaporean general election 2020 ge2020 will be on friday 10 july 2020. The voting age in singapore is 21 years.

1 81 of votes cast were invalid votes the lowest rate in a general election of singapore s post independence history and lowest since the 1963 election when 0 99 were invalid when singapore was still a state in malaysia. This puts singapore in the bottom 11 countries of the world when it comes to legal voting age. All singapore citizens not less than 21 years old on the cut off date for the registration of electors 1 january of a particular year and ordinarily resident in the country are entitled to vote in both parliamentary and presidential elections.

Is not less than 21 years of age. Eventually 335 electors voted at eight polling stations around the world. The number of constituencies or electoral divisions is not permanently fixed.

To qualify to vote at a contested election a person s name must be in the certified register of electors for an electoral division also known as constituency. It will be a public holiday. However austria was the first european nation to lower its voting age in 2011.