Sri Lanka parliamentary election dates and Voting Live
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Sri Lanka parliamentary election dates and Voting Live 2020
Sri Lanka parliamentary election Dates 2020
Sri Lanka parliamentary election Date: April 25, 2020
Parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka are scheduled to be held in 2020.
In November 2018, the date was briefly moved forward by more than a year to 5 January 2019 due to President Maithripala Sirisena dissolving parliament during a constitutional crisis and calling for a snap election. The Supreme Court later suspended the dissolution and ordered a halt to the snap election, effectively moving the election's date back to 2020.
On 19 March, Election Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya revealed that the election will be postponed indefinitely until further notice due to the coronavirus pandemic. Sri Lankan government initially insisted that scheduled forthcoming the election would proceed as planned on 25 April despite the coronavirus pandemic in the country, and the authorities banned election rallies and meetings. During the video conference with SAARC leaders, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa initially confirmed that the parliamentary elections would be held as scheduled.
Sri Lanka parliamentary election dates and Voting Live 2020
- 9 November 2018 – President Maithripala Sirisena dissolves parliament and calls general elections to be held on January 5, 2019.
- 13 December 2018 – The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka ruled unanimously that President Maithripala Sirisena's order to dissolve Parliament and hold new elections was unconstitutional.
- 16 December 2018 – Ranil Wickramasinghe was sworn back as Prime Minister after the Supreme Court ruled that Mahinda Rajapaksa can not act as Prime Minister.
- 30 January 2020 – United National Party working committee approves Leader of Opposition Sajith Premadasa as its Prime Minister candidate.
- 10 February 2020 – Leader of the opposition Sajith Premadasa forms a new alliance called Samagi Jana Balawegaya.
- 17 February 2020 – Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance registered under the leadership of Mahinda Rajapaksa and Maithripala Sirisena named as chairperson.
The Electoral system of Sri Lanka
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.
Sri Lanka election Party and candidate
Leader |
Sajith Premadasa |
Mahinda Rajapaksa |
Party |
Samagi Jana Balawegaya |
Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance |
Leader |
R. Sampanthan |
Anura Kumara Dissanayaka |
Party |
Tamil National Alliance |
National People's Power |
Sri Lanka Elections Results
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Past Sri Lanka Elections Results
Summary of the 2015 Sri Lankan parliamentary election |
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Alliances and parties |
Votes |
% |
Seats |
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District |
National |
Total |
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United National Front for Good Governance |
5,098,916 |
45.66% |
93 |
13 |
106 |
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United People's Freedom Alliance |
4,732,664 |
42.38% |
83 |
12 |
95 |
|
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Tamil National Alliance |
515,963 |
4.62% |
14 |
2 |
16 |
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Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna |
543,944 |
4.87% |
4 |
2 |
6 |
|
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Sri Lanka Muslim Congress |
44,193 |
0.40% |
1 |
0 |
1 |
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Eelam People's Democratic Party |
33,481 |
0.30% |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
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Independents |
42,828 |
0.38% |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
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All Ceylon Makkal Congress |
33,102 |
0.30% |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
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Democratic Party |
28,587 |
0.26% |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
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Buddhist People's Front |
20,377 |
0.18% |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Tamil National People's Front |
18,644 |
0.17% |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Ceylon Workers' Congress |
17,107 |
0.15% |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Frontline Socialist Party |
7,349 |
0.07% |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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United People's Party |
5,353 |
0.05% |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Others |
24,467 |
0.22% |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Valid Votes |
11,166,975 |
100.00% |
196 |
29 |
225 |
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Rejected Votes |
517,123 |
4.43% |
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Total Polled |
11,684,098 |
77.66% |
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Registered Electors |
15,044,490 |
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