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Dates of nomination, election, dissolution and duration of State Councils [5] State Council Date of Duration Nomination Election First meeting Dissolved 1st: 4 May 1931: 13–20 June 1931 [d] 6 July 1931: 7 December 1935: 4 years, 5 months and 1 day 2nd: 15 January 1936: 22 February – 7 March 1936 [e] 16 March 1936: 4 July 1947: 11 years, 3 ...
This electoral calendar 2009 lists the national/federal direct elections held in 2009 in the de jure and de facto sovereign states and their dependent territories. Referendums are included, although they are not elections.
Indian general election in Uttarakhand, 2009; Results of the 2009 Indian general election by parliamentary constituency; Results of the 2009 Indian general election by party; Results of the 2009 Indian general election by state; Results of the 2009 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu by state assembly constituents
Date of the election [ edit ] Under Article 70 of the constitution and section 10 of the Parliamentary Elections Act, No. 1 of 1981, the president has the authority to dissolve parliament and call fresh elections after two years and six months from its first sitting or upon receiving a resolution from parliament during its five-year term.
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 President of Sri Lanka is directly elected by voters for a five-year term. [1] Below is a list of presidential elections in Sri Lanka , including the number of votes obtained by each candidate and voter turnout .
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 ...
The main opposition alliance, Sajith Premadasa's Samagi Jana Balawegaya, won 40 seats, a decrease from the previous election. Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe 's New Democratic Front secured 5 seats, while former President Mahinda Rajapaksa 's Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna collapsed from 145 seats in the previous election, winning 3 seats.