The number of local registered individual voters has increased for this year’s Legislative Assembly (AL) to some 325,180 people, a 6 per cent rise from the 307,020 registered voters for the 2017 legislative elections.
The number of people who applied to register for the first time has jumped by a considerable 590 per cent from only 2,302 applicants in 2019 to 15,903 new applicants in 2020.
Of the newly registered voters, some 60 per cent were under 39 years of age, with voters between 20 to 24 years of age the most numerous of the new applicants.
The elections to choose 14 of the AL’s 33 legislators is expected to be scheduled for after the summer holidays and before October, with the 2017 AL Elections having been held on September 17.
Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng indicated this week that despite the on-going pandemic the 2021 Legislative Assembly elections will be carried out “successfully”.
