2023 Singaporean presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Singapore on 1 September 2023. It was the sixth direct presidential election and the third to be contested by more than one candidate. Incumbent president Halimah Yacob, who had been elected unopposed in 2017, did not seek re-election.

Three candidates contested the non-partisan position: Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Ng Kok Song and Tan Kin Lian. All were independents or had resigned from any political parties they were previously members of. Each candidate was issued a Certificate of Eligibility (COE) and a community certificate, meeting the eligibility requirements to contest in the election.

Tharman won a majority of the votes, at 70.41% of the votes and winning by a record margin. He also became the first non-Chinese candidate to be directly elected to the presidency. Ng received 15.72% of the vote, while two-time presidential candidate Tan received 13.87%, improving on his performance in the 2011 election when he had performed poorly enough to forfeit his election deposit. Tharman was inaugurated on 14 September as the ninth president of Singapore.