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Presidential elections will be held in Sri Lanka on 21 September 2024. [1] [2] Voters will elect a president for a 5-year term. Incumbent president Ranil Wickremesinghe is running for re-election as an independent candidate. [3] [4] [5] This would make him the first incumbent president to run for re-election since Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2015.
The 16th parliamentary election was held on 5 August 2020. [1] The incumbent Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance claimed a landslide victory in the election claiming the majority winning 145 seats, [2] [3] [4] while the newly formed Samagi Jana Balawegaya won a total of 54 seats and the National People's Power won 3 seats.
1999 Election. 1994 Election. 1988 Election. 1982 Election. Percentages of votes received by political parties in the direct presidential elections. United National Party / New Democratic Front candidates. Sri Lanka Freedom Party candidates. Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna candidates. Others.
August 15, 2024 at 2:16 AM. By Uditha Jayasinghe. COLOMBO (Reuters) - Thirty-nine candidates for Sri Lanka's presidential election submitted nominations on Thursday as the Indian Ocean island ...
BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI. August 15, 2024 at 3:53 AM. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s elections commission on Thursday accepted applications from a record 39 candidates to run in next month ...
July 29, 2024 at 9:28 AM. By Uditha Jayasinghe. COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe failed on Monday to secure the backing of the biggest political party in parliament for ...
t. e. Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka before August 2025 according to the constitution. The president has the power under the constitution to hold elections two and half years after the previous elections, which took place in August 2020. [1]
v. t. e. 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 .