Elections in Sri Lanka

Elections in Sri Lanka gives information on election and election results in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka elects on 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.

President

The president is directly elected for a five-year term, through a version of Instant-runoff voting in which electors rank up to three candidates, and limited to only two rounds in total. If no candidate wins a majority in the first round of voting, second and third preferences from ballots whose first preference candidate has been eliminated are used to determine the winner.[1] However, there has never been an instance where a "run-off" count has been needed since the introduction of directly elected president in the 1980s, as a candidate reached 50% in the first count in all elections.

Parliament

The Parliament has 225 members, elected for a five-year term, 196 members elected in multi-seat constituencies through proportional representation system where each party is allocated a number of seats from the quota for each district according to the proportion of the total vote that party obtains in the district. The other 29 which is called the national list are appointed by each party secretary according to the island wide proportional vote the party obtains.

Latest elections

2019 Presidential election

**Summary of the 2019 Sri Lankan presidential election**[2]
Candidate		Votes	%
Gotabaya Rajapaksa	Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna	6,924,255	52.25%
Sajith Premadasa	New Democratic Front	5,564,239	41.99%
Anura Kumara Dissanayaka	National Movement for People’s Power	418,553	3.16%
Mahesh Senanayake	National People's Party	49,655	0.37%
M. L. A. M. Hizbullah	Independent	38,814	0.29%
Ariyawansa Dissanayake	Democratic United National Front	34,537	0.26%
Ajantha Perera	Socialist Party of Sri Lanka	27,572	0.21%
Rohan Pallewatte	National Development Front	25,173	0.19%
Siripala Amarasinghe	Independent	15,285	0.12%
Milroy Fernando	Independent	13,641	0.10%
M. K. Shivajilingam	Independent	12,256	0.09%
Battaramulle Seelarathana	Jana Setha Peramuna	11,879	0.09%
Ajantha de Zoysa	Ruhunu Janatha Peramuna	11,705	0.09%
Anuruddha Polgampola	Independent	10,219	0.08%
Namal Rajapaksa	National Unity Alliance	9,497	0.07%
Jayantha Ketagoda	Independent	9,467	0.07%
Duminda Nagamuwa	Frontline Socialist Party	8,219	0.06%
Aparekke Punnananda	Independent	7,611	0.06%
Subramanium Gunaratnam	Our National Front	7,333	0.06%
A. S. P. Liyanage	Sri Lanka Labour Party	6,447	0.05%
Piyasiri Wijenayake	Independent	4,636	0.04%
Aruna de Zoysa	Democratic National Movement	4,218	0.03%
Rajiva Wijesinha	Independent	4,146	0.03%
Illiyas Idroos Mohamed	Independent	3,987	0.03%
Siritunga Jayasuriya	United Socialist Party	3,944	0.03%
Sarath Keerthirathna	Independent	3,599	0.03%
Sarath Manamendra	New Sinhala Heritage	3,380	0.03%
Pani Wijesiriwardene	Socialist Equality Party	3,014	0.02%
Ashoka Wadigamangawa	Independent	2,924	0.02%
A. H. M. Alavi	Independent	2,903	0.02%
Saman Perera	Our Power of People Party	2,368	0.02%
Priyantha Edirisinghe	Okkoma Wesiyo Okkoma Rajawaru Sanwidhanaya	2,139	0.02%
Samaraweera Weerawanni	Independent	2,067	0.02%
Bedde Gamage Nandimithra	Nava Sama Samaja Party	1,841	0.01%
Samansiri Herath	Independent	976	0.01%
Valid Votes		13,252,499	100.00%
Rejected Votes		135,452	1.01%
Total Polled		13,387,951	83.72%
Registered Electors		15,992,096

2015 Parliamentary election

**Summary of the 2015 Sri Lankan parliamentary election**[3][4]
Alliances and parties		Votes	%	Seats
Alliances and parties		Votes	%	District	National	Total
	United National Front for Good Governance[lower-roman 1] All Ceylon Makkal Congress[lower-roman 2] Democratic National Movement Jathika Hela Urumaya Muslim Tamil National Alliance National Front for Good Governance Sri Lanka Muslim Congress[lower-roman 3] Tamil Progressive Alliance Democratic People's Front National Union of Workers Up-Country People's Front United Left Front United National Party	5,098,916	45.66%	93	13	106
	United People's Freedom Alliance Ceylon Workers' Congress[lower-roman 4] Citizen's Front[lower-roman 5] Democratic National Front Democratic People's Congress Liberal Party[lower-roman 6] Mahajana Eksath Peramuna National Congress National Freedom Front Pivithuru Hela Urumaya Socialist Alliance Communist Party of Sri Lanka Democratic Left Front Lanka Sama Samaja Party National Liberation People's Party Sri Lanka People's Party Sri Lanka Freedom Party Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal United Citizens’ Front	4,732,664	42.38%	83	12	95
	Tamil National Alliance[lower-roman 7] Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization	515,963	4.62%	14	2	16
	Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna	543,944	4.87%	4	2	6
	Sri Lanka Muslim Congress[lower-roman 3]	44,193	0.40%	1	0	1
	Eelam People's Democratic Party	33,481	0.30%	1	0	1
	Independents	42,828	0.38%	0	0	0
	All Ceylon Makkal Congress[lower-roman 2]	33,102	0.30%	0	0	0
	Democratic Party	28,587	0.26%	0	0	0
	Buddhist People's Front Bodu Bala Sena United Lanka Great Council	20,377	0.18%	0	0	0
	Tamil National People's Front[lower-roman 8] All Ceylon Tamil Congress	18,644	0.17%	0	0	0
	Ceylon Workers' Congress[lower-roman 4]	17,107	0.15%	0	0	0
	Frontline Socialist Party	7,349	0.07%	0	0	0
	United People's Party	5,353	0.05%	0	0	0
	Others	24,467	0.22%	0	0	0
Valid Votes		11,166,975	100.00%	196	29	225
Rejected Votes		517,123	4.43%
Total Polled		11,684,098	77.66%
Registered Electors		15,044,490
Footnotes: The UNFGG contested under the name and symbol of UNP. The ACMC contested separately in one district (Ampara) and with the UNFGG in other districts. The SLMC contested separately in two districts (Batticaloa and Vanni) and with the UNFGG in other districts. The CWC contested separately in three districts (Badulla, Kandy and Kegalle) and with the UPFA in other districts. The CF contested separately in two districts (Nuwara Eliya and Vanni) and with the UPFA in other districts. The LP contested separately in four districts (Colombo, Galle, Kurunegala and Matara) and with the UPFA in other districts. The TNA contested under the name and symbol of ITAK. The TNPF contested under the name and symbol of ACTC.

References

Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Election for President
"Presidential Election - 2019: Final Result - All Island". news.lk. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Department of Government Information. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
"Parliamentary Election - 17-08-2015 - Official Election Results — All Island Results". Department of Elections, Sri Lanka.
"Parliamentary Election - 17-08-2015 - Official Election Results — Composition of the Parliament". Department of Elections, Sri Lanka.

External links

Department of Elections
Adam Carr's Election Archive
www.Srilankanelections.com - A website featuring Sri Lankan elections and results.

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[5] The UNFGG contested under the name and symbol of UNP.

[ACMC-6] The ACMC contested separately in one district (Ampara) and with the UNFGG in other districts.

[SLMC-7] The SLMC contested separately in two districts (Batticaloa and Vanni) and with the UNFGG in other districts.

[CWC-8] The CWC contested separately in three districts (Badulla, Kandy and Kegalle) and with the UPFA in other districts.

[CF-9] The CF contested separately in two districts (Nuwara Eliya and Vanni) and with the UPFA in other districts.

[LP-10] The LP contested separately in four districts (Colombo, Galle, Kurunegala and Matara) and with the UPFA in other districts.

[11] The TNA contested under the name and symbol of ITAK.

[12] The TNPF contested under the name and symbol of ACTC.

[1] Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Election for President

[2] "Presidential Election - 2019: Final Result - All Island". news.lk. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Department of Government Information. Retrieved 17 November 2019.

[3] "Parliamentary Election - 17-08-2015 - Official Election Results — All Island Results". Department of Elections, Sri Lanka.

[4] "Parliamentary Election - 17-08-2015 - Official Election Results — Composition of the Parliament". Department of Elections, Sri Lanka.

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