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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 ...
Waduge Warunasiri Mahinda Deshapriya (Sinhala: මහින්ද දේශප්රිය; born 6 June 1955) is a Sri Lankan civil servant who served as the 1st Chairman of Election Commission of Sri Lanka [1] from 2015 to 2020, previously serving as 8th Commissioner of Department of Elections from 2011 to 2015.
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]
The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1776/06. 17 September 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 November 2012. "PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Government Notifications PROVINCIAL COUNCILS ELECTIONS ACT, No. 2 OF 1988 Notice Under Section 61A(2)" (PDF) .
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 ...
Elections in the newly merged North Eastern Province were held on 19 November 1988. On 1 March 1990, just as the Indian Peace Keeping Force was preparing to withdraw from Sri Lanka, Annamalai Varadaraja Perumal, Chief Minister of North Eastern Province, moved a motion in the North Eastern Provincial Council declaring independent Eelam. [5]
Whoever wins the election will have to ensure Sri Lanka gets its economy on a sustainable and inclusive growth path, reassure local and international markets, attract investors and help a quarter of t
An election commission is a body charged with overseeing the implementation of electioneering process of any country. The formal names of election commissions vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and may be styled an electoral commission, [1] a central [2] or state election commission, [3] or an election board, [4] an electoral council [5] or an electoral court. [6]