1989 Sri Lankan parliamentary election
Sri Lanka had not had a parliamentary election since 1977. The elections that should normally have been held by 1983 had been cancelled by the 1982 referendum.
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All 225 seats to the Parliament of Sri Lanka 113 seats were needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 63.60% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Winners of electoral districts. UNP in green and SLFP in blue. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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President Ranasinghe Premadasa called the election for February 15.
Results
Summary
Summary of the 1989 Sri Lankan parliamentary election[1]
| Alliances and parties | Votes | % | Seats | |||
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| District | National | Total | ||||
| United National Party | 2,838,005 | 50.71% | 110 | 15 | 125 | |
| Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 1,785,369 | 31.90% | 58 | 9 | 67 | |
| Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students[lower-alpha 1] | 229,877 | 4.11% | 12 | 1 | 13 | |
| Tamil United Liberation Front | 188,594 | 3.37% | 9 | 1 | 10 | |
| Sri Lanka Muslim Congress | 202,016 | 3.61% | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| United Socialist Alliance | 160,271 | 2.86% | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Mahajana Eksath Peramuna | 91,128 | 1.63% | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| United Lanka People's Party | 67,723 | 1.21% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Democratic People's Liberation Front | 18,502 | 0.33% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| All Ceylon Tamil Congress | 7,610 | 0.14% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independents | 7,373 | 0.13% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Valid Votes | 5,596,468 | 100.00% | 196 | 29 | 225 | |
| Rejected Votes | 365,563 | |||||
| Total Polled | 5,962,031 | |||||
| Registered Electors | 9,374,164 | |||||
| Turnout | 63.60% | |||||
Province
Electoral District
Elected members
Notes
- EROS contested as an independent group in four districts (Batticaloa, Jaffna, Trincomalee and Vanni).
References
- "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1989" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-04. Retrieved 2010-10-03.
- "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1989" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-04.
- "Table 39 Parliament Election (1989)". Sri Lanka Statistics. 10 February 2009.
- "Sri Lanka Parliamentary Chamber: Parliament Elections Held in 1989". Inter-Parliamentary Union.
- Rajasingham, K. T. (27 April 2002). "Chapter 37: Talking peace". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story. Asia Times.
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