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Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 8 and 20 April 2010, to elect 225 members to Sri Lanka's 14th Parliament. [1] 14,088,500 Sri Lankans were eligible to vote in the election at 11,102 polling stations. It was the first general election to be held in Sri Lanka following the conclusion of the civil war which lasted 26 years.
State Council Total seats Description 1931: 1st: 58 The State Council of Ceylon was the unicameral legislature of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), established in 1931 by the Donoughmore Constitution. It introduced universal adult franchise to the colony for the first time, replacing the Legislative Council of Ceylon, the original legislative body. 1936: 2nd
Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-03-04. "2004 General Election Results". LankaNewspapers.com. "Table 43 Parliamentary General Election (Electoral District) (2004)". Sri Lanka Statistics. 10 February 2009. "Sri Lanka Parliamentary Chamber: Parliament Elections Held in 2004". Inter-Parliamentary Union.
Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 2010-08-26. "Parliamentary General Election 2001 – All Island Result". Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 2009-01-07. "Parliamentary General Election 2001 – Final District Results". Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original ...
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 Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, a constituent party of the UPFA, contested on its own in 59 local authorities and with the UPFA in others. The Up-Country People's Front and Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal, which had contested past elections under the UPFA banner, contested on their own in 22 and 7 local authorities respectively. A number of ...
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.
Provincial council elections were held in Sri Lanka on 29 March 2014 to elect 159 members to two of the nine provincial councils in the country. 5.9 million Sri Lankans were eligible to vote in the election. Elections to a third provincial council (Uva) were held on 20 September.