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By the end of candidate registration on 15 August, the Election Commission had accepted a total of 39 applications for the presidential election, the highest number ever recorded for a presidential election in Sri Lanka. [36] One candidate, Mohamed Illiyas, died of a heart attack prior to the election. [27] [37] His name on the ballot was not ...
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 course of the country's ...
The Election Commission of Sri Lanka is the constitutional authority responsible for administering and overseeing all elections in Sri Lanka, including the Presidential, Parliamentary, Provincial and Local Authority elections. Sri Lanka has had universal adult suffrage since 1931, becoming the first Crown colony to enfranchise all adult ...
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 .
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe became the first candidate to officially register for the presidential election on Sept. 21, in which almost 17 million of ...
COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka will vote on Sept. 21 to elect a new president, a government notice said on Friday, a crucial contest that is expected to determine the future of reforms in the South ...
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 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 ...