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The 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election was the ninth presidential election in the country’s history and was held on 21 September 2024. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe ran for re-election as an independent candidate, making him the first sitting president to run for re-election since Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2015 .
On 20 July 2022, Wickremesinghe was elected by parliament as the 9th President of Sri Lanka, tasked with completing the remainder of Rajapaksa's term. [14] In the 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election held on 21 September 2024, Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the National People's Power (NPP) defeated Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa and ...
Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 14 November 2024 to elect 225 members to the new parliament. The 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka was dissolved on 24 September 2024. [3] [4] [5] The submission of nominations for the election commenced on 4 October and concluded on 11 October 2024 at 12:00 SLST. [6] [7]
About 17 million of Sri Lanka's 22 million people are eligible to vote in the first election since protests against the economic hardships in 2022 forced then president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee ...
The parliamentary election in Sri Lanka on 14 ... sparked mass protests in 2022 that forced Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign as president and flee the country. ... The World Bank forecasts the economy ...
The seventeenth is scheduled for 14 November 2024. [1] The current Parliament of Sri Lanka has 225 members elected for a five-year term. 196 members are elected from 22 multi-seat constituencies through an open list proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold; voters can rank up to three candidates on the party list they vote for ...
Dissanayake polled 5.6 million votes, or 42.3%, in Saturday's poll, a massive boost to the 3% he managed in the last presidential election in 2019. His nearest rival, opposition leader Sajith ...
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, ... 2024 Election. 2019 ...