SINGAPORE – The Elections Department announced that 12,303 Singaporeans have turned up to cast their votes in the Bukit Batok by-election by 12pm today (May 7).
That is 47 per cent of the 25,727 registered electors in the constituency, it said in a statement.
Bukit Batok residents started voting at 8am when the polls opened.
It’s a straight fight between the People’s Action Party’s (PAP’s) Murali Pillai and Singapore Democratic Party’s Chee Soon Juan.
The by-election was called last month after the previous member of parliament, PAP’s David Ong, resigned in March over an alleged extra-marital affair with a grassroot volunteer.
The Straits Times
Dr Chee told The Straits Times that he had been going around the different polling stations “to make sure everything is okay” this morning.
Mr Murali also said that he’s “lost count of the stations” he visited, since he started before 8am.
The Straits Times said that voters started queueing at some polling stations as early as 7.30am.
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