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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. [2]
Accordingly, President Rajapaksa informed the Commissioner of Elections on 23 November 2009 of his intention to hold a presidential election before the end of his current term of office. [7] The elections would be the first presidential elections to be held in Sri Lanka since the end of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
The only election which changed party hands (from Republican to Democratic) was in New York's 23rd congressional district. Also, a primary election was held in Massachusetts on December 8, 2009, for the senate seat left open by the death of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy ; the general special election for that later seat occurred on January 19, 2010.
[7] [8] [9] Liyanage ran advertisements congratulating US President Barack Obama before his victory in the 2008 United States presidential election. [10] Liyanage conducted [clarification needed] the popular Sri Lankan celebrity TV program A.S.P Paduru Partiya for 7 years. He also produced television and film adaptations of Suseema. [11]
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 .
The election of the president and for vice president of the United States is an indirect election in which citizens of the United States who are registered to vote in one of the fifty U.S. states or in Washington, D.C., cast ballots not directly for those offices, but instead for members of the Electoral College.
On 25 May 2009 the government announced that local elections would be held in Jaffna and Vavuniya. [3] Nominations took place between 18 June 2009 and 25 June 2009. After the nominations closed the Sri Lankan Department of Election announced that the elections would take place on 8 August 2009, the same day as the Uva Provincial Council ...