Elections in Sri Lanka

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For the current elections in the Eastern Province see: Sri Lanka Eastern Provincial Council elections, 2008

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 multi party system, with two dominant political parties,and with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party.

1 Latest elections
- 1.1 2005 Presidential election
- 1.2 2004 Parliamentary election
2 Past elections and Referendums
3 See also
4 External links

Latest elections

2005 Presidential election

Main article: Sri Lankan presidential election, 2005

e • d Summary of the 17 November 2005 Sri Lanka presidential election results
Candidate	Party	Votes	%
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
Ashoka Suraweera	Jathika Sangwardhena Peramuna	31,238	0.32
Victor Hettigoda	Eksath Lanka Podujana Pakshaya	14,458	0.15
Chamil Jayaneththi	New Left Front	9,296	0.10
Aruna de Soyza	Ruhunu Janatha Party	7,685	0.08
Wimal Geeganage	Sri Lanka National Front	6,639	0.07
Anura de Silva	United Lalith Front	6,357	0.07
Ajith Arachchige	Democratic Unity Alliance	5,082	0.05
Wije Dias	Socialist Equality Party	3,500	0.04
Nelson Perera	Sri Lanka Progressive Front	2,525	0.03
H. Dharmadwaja	United National Alternative Front	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

Main article: Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 2004

e • d Summary of the 2 April 2004 Parliament of Sri Lanka election results
Alliances and parties	Votes	%	Change	Seats	Change
United People's Freedom Alliance Sri Lanka Freedom Party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya Muslim National Unity Alliance Mahajana Eksath Peramuna Communist Party of Sri Lanka Desha Vimukthi Janatha Party Lanka Sama Samaja Party	4,223,970	45.60	-0.01	105	+12
United National Front United National Party Ceylon Workers' Congress	3,504,200	37.83	-7.73	82	-27
Tamil National Alliance/Illankai Tamil Arasu Katchi All Ceylon Tamil Congress Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization Tamil United Liberation Front	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
Jathika Sangwardhena Peramuna	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
United Muslim People's Alliance	3,779	0.04		0
United Lalith Front	3,773	0.04	+0.00	0
National People's Party	1,540	0.02		0
Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya	1,401	0.02	+0.00	0
Swarajya	1,136	0.01		0
Sri Lanka Progressive Front	814	0.01	+0.00	0
Ruhunu Janatha Party	590	0.01	+0.00	0
Sri Lanka National Front	493	0.01	+0.00	0
Liberal Party	413	0.00	-0.01	0
Sri Lanka Muslim Katchi	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 Referendums

v • d • e Sri Lankan presidential elections

1982 · 1988 · 1994 · 1999 · 2005

Sri Lankan parliamentary elections

1931 · 1936 · 1947 · 1952 · 1956 · 1960 (Mar) · 1960 (Jul) · 1965 · 1970 · 1977 · 1989 · 1994 · 2000 · 2001 · 2004

Sri Lankan referendums

1982