Elections in Sri Lanka
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 .
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.
Local Government
The Local government bodies in Sri Lanka;
are elected through the mixed electoral system .
Latest elections
2019 presidential election
Candidate Party Votes % Gotabaya Rajapaksa Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna 6,924,255 52.25 Sajith Premadasa New Democratic Front 5,564,239 41.99 Anura Kumara Dissanayake National 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 0.03 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 Total 13,252,499 100.00 Valid votes 13,252,499 98.99 Invalid/blank votes 135,452 1.01 Total votes 13,387,951 100.00 Registered voters/turnout 15,992,096 83.72 Source: Election Commission
2020 Parliamentary election
Summary of the 2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election [2] [3] [4]
Alliances and parties
Votes
%
Seats
District
National
Total
6,853,690
59.09%
128
17
145
2,771,980
23.90%
47
7
54
327,168
2.82%
9
1
10
445,958
3.84%
2
1
3
67,766
0.58%
1
1
2
Eelam People's Democratic Party
61,464
0.53%
2
0
2
United National Party (Ranil wing)
249,435
2.15%
0
1
1
Our Power of People's Party
67,758
0.58%
0
1
1
Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal
67,692
0.58%
1
0
1
Sri Lanka Freedom Party [iv]
66,579
0.57%
1
0
1
Muslim National Alliance
55,981
0.48%
1
0
1
51,301
0.44%
1
0
1
All Ceylon Makkal Congress [vi]
43,319
0.37%
1
0
1
National Congress [i]
39,272
0.34%
1
0
1
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress [vii]
34,428
0.30%
1
0
1
Independents
223,622
1.93%
0
0
0
United Peace Alliance
31,054
0.27%
0
0
0
All Lanka Tamil Mahasabha
30,031
0.26%
0
0
0
National Development Front
14,686
0.13%
0
0
0
Frontline Socialist Party
14,522
0.13%
0
0
0
Social Democratic Party of Tamils
11,464
0.10%
0
0
0
Tamil United Liberation Front
9,855
0.08%
0
0
0
Socialist Party of Sri Lanka
9,368
0.08%
0
0
0
People's Welfare Front
7,361
0.06%
0
0
0
Sinhalese National Front
5,056
0.04%
0
0
0
New Democratic Front
4,883
0.04%
0
0
0
United Left Front
4,879
0.04%
0
0
0
Liberal Party of Sri Lanka
4,345
0.04%
0
0
0
National People's Party
3,813
0.03%
0
0
0
Democratic United National Front
3,611
0.03%
0
0
0
National Democratic Front
3,488
0.03%
0
0
0
Sri Lanka Labour Party
3,134
0.03%
0
0
0
Democratic Left Front
2,964
0.03%
0
0
0
New Sinhala Heritage
1,397
0.01%
0
0
0
United Socialist Party
1,189
0.01%
0
0
0
Motherland People's Party
1,087
0.01%
0
0
0
Eelavar Democratic Front
1,035
0.01%
0
0
0
Socialist Equality Party
780
0.01%
0
0
0
Lanka Sama Samaja Party [iii]
737
0.01%
0
0
0
All Are Citizens All Are Kings Organization
632
0.01%
0
0
0
Democratic Unity Alliance
145
0.00%
0
0
0
Valid Votes
11,598,929
100.00%
196
29
225
Rejected Votes
744,373
6.03%
Total Polled
12,343,302
75.89%
Registered Electors
16,263,885
^ a b The NC contested separately in two districts (Ampara and Polonnaruwa ) and with the SLPFA in other districts.
^ The DLF contested separately in two districts (Jaffna and Vanni ) and with the SLPFA in other districts.
^ a b The LSSP contested separately in one district (Jaffna ) and with the SLPFA in other districts.
^ a b The SLFP contested separately in three districts (Jaffna , Kalutara and Nuwara Eliya ) and with the SLPFA in other districts.
^ The SLPFA contested under the name and symbol of SLPP .
^ a b The ACMC contested separately in one district (Ampara ) and with the SJB in other districts.
^ a b The SLMC contested separately in one district (Batticaloa ) and with the SJB in other districts.
^ The TNA contested under the name and symbol of ITAK .
^ The TNPF contested under the name and symbol of ACTC .
See also
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