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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]
During the video conference with SAARC leaders, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa initially confirmed that the parliamentary elections would be held as scheduled. [30] Even with the president's comments holding the elections as scheduled, the Election Commission in Sri Lanka put off the date to 20 June 2020, using its powers. [31]
Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 10 October 2000. The People's Alliance (PA) government Kumaratunga had led for six years was facing increasing criticism on two fronts: a series of military defeats at the hands of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the country's civil war , and the faltering performance of the economy.
3 January 2020 2 March 2020 20 16th Parliament: 20 August 2020 1 20 August 2020 12 December 2021 24 September 2024 4 years, 1 month and 4 days SLPP led Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance: 2 18 January 2022 28 July 2022 3 3 August 2022 27 January 2023 4 8 February 2023 26 January 2024 5 7 February 2024 24 September 2024 21 17th Parliament
The 16th parliamentary election was held on 5 August 2020. [3] The incumbent Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance claimed a landslide victory in the election claiming the majority winning 145 seats, [4] [5] [6] while the newly formed Samagi Jana Balawegaya won a total of 54 seats and the National People's Power won 3 seats.
Polling divisions in Sri Lanka are subdivisions of the country's electoral districts. From the 1st parliamentary election in 1947 to the 8th in 1977, members were elected to the parliament using a first-past-the-post system from these polling divisions. This system changed in 1978. [1]
Sri Lanka votes to elect a new parliament this week in a snap general election called by its Marxist-leaning president who wants a fresh mandate in the legislature to drive economic reforms in the ...
"Parliamentary General Election 2000 – All Island Result". Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 2012-12-19.