Singapore Election Sees Record Number of Women Vying for Votes
Gan Siow Huang, member of the Peoples Action Party, center, leaves a nomination center in Singapore, on June 30.
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Women are poised to score historic wins in Singapore’s elections, as a record number of female candidates contest seats on Friday’s ballot.
Forty women are running in the election, up from 35 in 2015. The number expected to enter parliament is likely to be a far cry from just four elected women who sat in the legislature at the start of the century.