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The last direct presidential elections held in Sri Lanka were in 2019, where SLPP candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa won the election in a landslide victory, defeating his main opponent Sajith Premadasa. [5] [6] Rajapaksa would eventually resign on 14 July 2022 amidst the 2022 Sri Lankan protests. [7] This triggered an indirect presidential election via Parliament a week later, to elect a successor ...
Next Sri Lankan parliamentary election. 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]
The President of Sri Lanka is directly elected by voters for a five-year term. [1] Below is a list of presidential elections in Sri Lanka, including the number of votes obtained by each candidate and voter turnout.
Development Lotteries Board also known DLB is the Sri Lanka government national lottery company. stated in 1983. In 1980s Lotteries Board established with the investment of Rs. 2.2 million (Rs. 260 million in 2020).
The Galle Polling Division is a Polling Division in the Galle Electoral District, in the Southern Province, Sri Lanka .
Pages in category "Candidates in the 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election"
The last local government elections held in Sri Lanka in 2018 saw the newly formed Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) winning a majority of the seats, winning 40% of the votes. [8] [9] [10] The SLPP, led by former president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s brother, Gotabaya Rajapaksa would later go on to win the presidential and parliamentary elections in 2019 and 2020 respectively, to become the ruling ...
Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 5 August 2020 to elect 225 members to Sri Lanka's 16th Parliament. [1] [2] [3] 16,263,885 people were eligible to vote in the election, 31.95% of whom were young voters.