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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 ...
The concept of registration of persons and issuing identity cards was the subject of an agreement made between India and Sri Lanka in 1954, The draft bill submitted to the Sri Lankan parliament in 1962 was passed as the Act of Registration of Persons No. 32 of 1968. With the aim of activating the provisions of this Act, the Department of ...
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 2019 Elpitiya Pradeshiya Sabha election, held on 11 October 2019, saw a high voter turnout of 78.86%, with the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) winning 56.31% of the vote (17 wards). The United National Front (UNF) followed with 24.37%, while the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) and Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) received 12.71% ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 .