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Election results Dates of elections Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Samagi Jana Balawegaya National People's Power Tamil National Alliance United National Party Others Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % 2019 presidential election: 6,924,255 52.25% － － 418,553 3.16% － － 5,564,239 41.99% [g] 345,452 2.35% 2020 parliamentary election
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]
Ranil Wickremesinghe won the election with 134 votes and was elected as the ninth President of Sri Lanka. [5] The election, which was held amid a political crisis, [6] was the first time in the history of Sri Lanka that a vote took place in Parliament to elect a President. [a] [7]
Sri Lankans will vote for a new president in a tightly contested election on Saturday, with the outcome expected to determine the fate of fragile economic recovery led by incumbent Ranil ...
Sri Lankans will vote on Saturday for their next president, who will be key to deciding the future of reforms in a nation slowly emerging from worst financial crisis in decades. A critical ...
22 September – 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election: The second round concludes, with NPP candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake being declared as president-elect of Sri Lanka. Dissanayake receives 55.89% of votes, defeating Sajith Premadasa with 44.11%. [116] 23 September Anura Kumara Dissanayake is inaugurated as the 10th President of Sri ...
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 ...
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]