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The 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election was the ninth presidential election in the country’s history and was held on 21 September 2024. [ 3 ][ 4 ] Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe ran for re-election as an independent candidate, making him the first sitting president to run for re-election since Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2015. [ 5 ][ 6 ...
The other electoral district - Vanni - consisted of the administrative districts of Mannar, Mullaitivu and Vavuniya. The 36 provincial seats were apportioned as follows: Central Province - Kandy 1; Matale 1; Nuwara Eliya 2. Eastern Province - Ampara 2; Batticaloa 1; Trincomalee 1. Northern Province - Jaffna 1, Vanni 3.
Colombo Electoral District is one of the 22 multi-member electoral districts of Sri Lanka created by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. The district is conterminous with the administrative district of Colombo in the Western province .
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s elections commission on Thursday accepted applications from a record 39 candidates to run in next month’s presidential election, which will decide the ...
COLOMBO (Reuters) - President Ranil Wickremesinghe is among the 38 candidates contesting Sri Lanka's presidential election on Saturday, a poll that is key to deciding the future of reforms in a ...
201,620. • Density. 14,663/km 2 (37,980/sq mi) ISO 3166 code. EC-01B. The Colombo Central Polling Division is a Polling Division in the Colombo Electoral District, in the Western Province, Sri Lanka.
Ethnicity. The Ratmalana Polling Division has a Sinhalese majority (78.9%) . In comparison, the Colombo Electoral District (which contains the Ratmalana Polling Division) has a Sinhalese majority (76.5%), a significant Moor population (10.7%) and a significant Sri Lankan Tamil population (10.1%) [1] Ethnicity in Ratmalana [1]
Elections in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka elects on the national level a head of state – the president – and a legislature. Sri Lanka has a multi-party system, with two dominant political parties. All elections are administered by the Election Commission of Sri Lanka.