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"Parliamentary General Election 2000 – All Island Result". Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 2012-12-19.
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]
"Parliamentary General Election 2000 – All Island Result". Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 2012-12-19.
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.
The other 29 seats are elected from a national list, with list members appointed by party secretaries and seats allocated according to the island-wide proportional vote the party obtains. [2] Every proclamation dissolving parliament must be published in The Sri Lanka Gazette and must specify the nomination period and the date of the election ...
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]
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 elections were marred by violence. Seventy people were killed during the campaign, including six on election day itself. [1] On 25 December 2000, a Tropical Cyclone hit Sri Lanka causing nine fatalities and millions in property damage. This marked the largest cyclone to have hit Sri Lanka since 1978. [2]