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Pages in category "Candidates in the 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
Sri Lanka’s elections commission on Thursday accepted applications from a record 39 candidates to run in next month’s presidential election, which will decide the course of the country's ...
The 2024 parliamentary elections resulted in a landslide victory for President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's National People's Power alliance, which won 159 of the 225 seats, securing a two-thirds majority in Parliament. [1] [2] The surge in the NPP's seat count from three in the 16th parliament marked a shift in Sri
The election signified a major political realignment in Sri Lanka. [10] Dissanayake's victory was the first time a third-party candidate was elected president. This was also the first election where neither of the top two candidates were endorsed by the United National Party or the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe is among the 38 candidates contesting Sri Lanka's presidential election on Saturday, a poll that is key to deciding the future of reforms in a nation battling its ...
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 ...
The Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance (SLPFA), led by Mahinda Rajapaksa, won a large majority in the 2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election on 5 August 2020. [14] During their tenure, the government under President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa faced multiple crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic and an economic crisis, which culminated into widespread protests ...
Susil Ranasinghe is a Sri Lankan politician and medical doctor who serves as a Member of Parliament for the Anuradhapura Electoral District since November 2024. He was elected during the 2024 Sri Lankan parliamentary election, receiving 72,508 preferential votes. [1] He is affiliated with the National People's Power political coalition.