Singapore voter rolls to be updated for next election; public inspection opens in Feb
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ELD will provide more details on how Singaporeans can check the Registers of Electors when they are open for public inspection.
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SINGAPORE - Singapore’s voter rolls are being updated and will be open for public inspection in February.
Prime Minister Lawrence Wong has directed the Registration Officer to update the Registers of Electors. The revision has to be completed before April 1, said the Elections Department (ELD) in a statement on Jan 22.
The updated registers will contain the names of all Singapore citizens who qualify to be electors as at Feb 1. The exercise comes ahead of a general election that must be held by November 2025.
Those who are citizens of Singapore, aged 21 or above, and have a Singapore residential address in their NRIC, will have their names included in the register of electors for an electoral division. This is provided they are not disqualified from being an elector under any prevailing law.
If they are residing overseas and have changed their NRIC address to an overseas address, they should have a contact address in Singapore registered with the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority for voting purposes.
ELD will provide more details on how Singaporeans can check the Registers of Electors when they are open for public inspection.
There is a register of electors for each electoral division in Singapore. Taken together, the Registers of Electors for all 31 group representation constituencies and single-member constituencies tally all qualified voters in the Republic.
The registers were last certified in July 2024.
There were 2,653,942 electors in the certified registers in April 2020. The 2020 General Election was held in July.
In 2015, the registers were certified in April, ahead of the election on Sept 11 that year.
In 2011, Polling Day was on May 7, less than three months after the registers were certified on Feb 22.
Chin Soo Fang is senior correspondent at The Straits Times, covering topics such as community, politics, social issues, consumer, culture and heritage.
