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Election results Dates of elections Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Samagi Jana Balawegaya National People's Power Tamil National Alliance United National Party Others Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % 2019 presidential election: 6,924,255 52.25% － － 418,553 3.16% － － 5,564,239 41.99% [g] 345,452 2.35% 2020 parliamentary election
The Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance (SLPFA), led by Mahinda Rajapaksa, won a large majority in the 2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election on 5 August 2020. [14] During their tenure, the government under President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa faced multiple crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic and an economic crisis, which culminated into widespread protests ...
District results for the 2024 Sri Lankan parliamentary election [7] Province Electoral District NPP SJB ITAK NDF SLPP Others Total Turnout Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Total Polled Registered Electors Seats Western: Colombo: 788,636: 68.63%: 14: 208,249: 18.12%: 4 – – – 51,020: 4.44% ...
The parliamentary election in Sri Lanka on 14 November, called by new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake to bolster legislative support for his policies, could set the tone for addressing the ...
Harini Amarasuriya, who was appointed prime minister after Dissanayake won the 2024 presidential elections, was re-appointed prime minister on 18 November 2024. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In the north and east, a decrease in support amongst Tamil and Muslim voters for traditional ethnic parties were given as reasons for the NPP's success.
Sri Lanka's knife-edge election on Saturday has raised doubts over when its long-awaited debt deal with bondholders will be finalised, if it keeps up with its IMF programme targets and even ...
Parliamentary elections have been held in Sri Lanka since the first in 1947, under three different constitutions: the Soulbury Constitution, the 1972 Constitution, and the currently enforced 1978 Constitution. Sixteen parliamentary elections have been held up to and including the 2020 election. The seventeenth is scheduled for 14 November 2024. [1]
Wickremesinghe's re-election bid failed to get formal backing from the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), the party with the most seats in the 225-member parliament, but the support of more than ...