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The proposed date which was initially mentioned as 25 April 2020 was pushed back until 20 June 2020 due to the virus outbreak, and was later postponed further to its final date. Sri Lanka also joined countries such as Poland , South Korea , Singapore , Syria and Serbia to have held the elections in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka (9th Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka) was the meeting of the Parliament of Sri Lanka with its membership determined by the results of the 2020 parliamentary election held on 5 August 2020. The parliament met for the first time on 20 August 2020 and was dissolved on 24 September 2024.
This national electoral calendar for 2020 lists the national/federal elections held in 2020 in all sovereign states and their dependent territories. By-elections are excluded, though national referendums are included.
2020; 2024; Next; Provincial council; 2013; ... Sri Lanka has a multi-party system, ... District results for the 2024 Sri Lankan parliamentary election [7]
Sri Lanka's last local government elections in 2018 resulted in the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) securing a majority with 40% of the vote. [6] [7] [8]Gotabaya Rajapaksa, contesting under the SLPP, subsequently won the 2019 Sri Lankan presidential election, while Mahinda Rajapaksa led the SLPP to victory in the 2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election.
Sri Lanka emerges as first runners-up in the 2020 Online School Debate Championship, losing to Canada 8–1 in the finals. [63] It was the first instance where Sri Lanka made it to the finals in the history of World Schools Debating Championships. Sri Lanka was also awarded the top-performing ESL team for secondary English-speaking countries. [64]
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The Sri Lanka National Front (Sri Lanka Jathika Peramuna) contested the 2001 Sri Lankan parliamentary election in 15 of the 22 electoral districts across the country. The party failed to win a single seat in the Parliament of Sri Lanka after securing 719 votes (about 0.01% of all votes cast). [17]