Election Name: | 1967 Singaporean presidential election |
Election Date: | 30 November 1967 |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Next Election: | 1970 Singaporean presidential election |
Next Year: | 1970 |
Country: | Singapore |
Nominee1: | Yusof Ishak |
Party1: | Independent politician |
Electoral Vote1: | 47 |
President | |
Before Election: | Yusof Ishak |
After Election: | Yusof Ishak |
Before Party: | Independent politician |
After Party: | Independent politician |
Indirect presidential elections were held in Singapore on 30 November 1967.[1] This was the first presidential election held in Singapore since the country's independence in 1965. Under the Singaporean constitution at the time, the president was elected by the Parliament of Singapore.
Yusof Ishak was re-elected by the Parliament of Singapore.[2] [3]
The election took place during a sitting of the Parliament on 30 November 1967. On that day's sitting, 47 out of the 51 members of Parliament were present, and four members were absent.[4]
Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew nominated Yusof Ishak as president during the sitting. The Parliament voted unanimously to elect him as president, and Ishak was sworn in for his second term as president on 4 December 1967.