Elections in Sri Lanka
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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. The president is elected for a six year term by the people. The Parliament has 225 members, elected for a six 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 distirc. 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.
Sri Lanka has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party.
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Latest elections
2005 Presidential election
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Mahinda Rajapakse | United People's Freedom Alliance | 4,887,152 | 50.29 | |
Ranil Wickremesinghe | United National Party | 4,706,366 | 48.43 | |
Siritunga Jayasuriya | United Socialist Party | 35,425 | 0.36 | |
31,238 | 0.32 | |||
Victor Hettigoda | 14,458 | 0.15 | ||
New Left Front | 9,296 | 0.10 | ||
7,685 | 0.08 | |||
6,639 | 0.07 | |||
6,357 | 0.07 | |||
5,082 | 0.05 | |||
Socialist Equality Party | 3,500 | 0.04 | ||
2,525 | 0.03 | |||
1,316 | 0.01 | |||
Total | 9,717,039 | |||
Registered Voters | 13,327,160 | |||
Total Votes cast | 9,826,778 | |||
Invalid Votes | 109,739 | |||
Valid Votes cast | 9,717,039 |
2004 Parliamentary election
Alliances and parties | Votes | % | Change | Seats | Change |
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United People's Freedom Alliance | 4,223,970 | 45.60 | -0.01 | 105 | +12 |
United National Front | 3,504,200 | 37.83 | -7.73 | 82 | -27 |
Tamil National Alliance/Illankai Tamil Arasu Katchi | 633,654 | 6.84 | - | 22 | +22 |
Jathika Hela Urumaya | 554,076 | 5.97 | - | 9 | +9 |
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress | 186,876 | 2.02 | +0.87 | 5 | - |
Up-Country People's Front | 49,728 | 0.54 | 1 | ||
Eelam People's Democratic Party | 24,955 | 0.27 | -0.54 | 1 | -1 |
14,956 | 0.16 | +0.14 | 0 | ||
United Socialist Party | 14,660 | 0.16 | +0.06 | 0 | |
Ceylon Democratic Unity Alliance | 10,736 | 0.12 | 0 | ||
New Left Front | 8,461 | 0.09 | -0.42 | 0 | |
Democratic People's Liberation Front | 7,326 | 0.08 | -0.10 | 0 | -1 |
3,779 | 0.04 | 0 | |||
3,773 | 0.04 | +0.00 | 0 | ||
1,540 | 0.02 | 0 | |||
Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya | 1,401 | 0.02 | +0.00 | 0 | |
Swarajya | 1,136 | 0.01 | 0 | ||
814 | 0.01 | +0.00 | 0 | ||
590 | 0.01 | +0.00 | 0 | ||
493 | 0.01 | +0.00 | 0 | ||
Liberal Party | 413 | 0.00 | -0.01 | 0 | |
382 | 0.00 | -0.01 | 0 | ||
Socialist Equality Party | 159 | 0.00 | +0.00 | 0 | |
Democratic United National Front | 141 | 0.00 | -0.01 | 0 | |
Independent lists | * | * | * | 0 | |
Total | 9,262,732 | - | - | 225 | |
Source: [1] |
Past elections and referenda
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See also
External links
- Adam Carr's Election Archive
- www.Srilankanelections.com - A website featuring Sri Lankan elections and results.