Local elections were held in Sri Lanka on 10 February 2018. 15.7 million Sri Lankans were eligible to elect 8,327 members to 340 local authorities (24...

Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 14 November 2024 to elect 225 members to the new parliament. The 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka was dissolved...

Local elections have not been held in Sri Lanka since 2018. Elections were originally scheduled to be held in 2022, but were postponed to 2023 due to...

Rajapaksa, joined the SLPP shortly after it was relaunched. In the 2018 Sri Lankan local elections, in a surprise result, the SLPP won a 40% plurality of votes...

Local elections were held in Sri Lanka on 8 August 2009 for two local councils in the north of the country: Jaffna Municipal Council and Vavuniya Urban...

There are no mayors in Sri Lanka and a “ city ” is not a legal division in the constitution of Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan local authorities are divided into...

The 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election was the ninth presidential election in the country’s history and was held on 21 September 2024. Incumbent President...

with two dominant political parties. All elections are administered by the Election Commission of Sri Lanka. The president is directly elected for a five-year...

Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 5 August 2020 to elect 225 members to Sri Lanka's 16th Parliament. 16,263,885 people were eligible to...

Local elections were held in Sri Lanka on 17 March 2011, 23 July 2011 and 8 October 2011 to elect 4,327 members for 322 of the 335 local authorities in...

lists political parties in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has a multi-party political system. Starting from the early 1950s, Sri Lankan politics was mostly dominated...

February – 2018 Sri Lankan local elections were conducted to elect 8293 members to the 341 local authorities. 23 February – Komaali Kings, a Sri Lankan Tamil-language...

The Sri Lankan civil war (Tamil: இலங்கை உள்நாட்டுப் போர், romanized: Ilaṅkai uḷnāṭṭup pōr; Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සිවිල් යුද්ධය, romanized: śrī laṁkāvē...

rest of the country. 70% of Sri Lankan Tamils in Sri Lanka live in the Northern and Eastern provinces. Modern Sri Lankan Tamils descend from residents...

presidential election was held in Sri Lanka on 20 July 2022 following the resignation of president Gotabaya Rajapaksa on 14 July. The president of Sri Lanka was...

Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 17 August 2015, ten months ahead of schedule, to elect 225 members to Sri Lanka's 15th Parliament. The...

Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 8 and 20 April 2010, to elect 225 members to Sri Lanka's 14th Parliament. 14,088,500 Sri Lankans were eligible...

The 2019 Sri Lankan presidential election was the 8th presidential election, held on 16 November 2019. Incumbent president Maithripala Sirisena did not...

The Election Commission of Sri Lanka is the constitutional authority responsible for administering and overseeing all elections in Sri Lanka, including...

2018 Sri Lankan local elections were held in Sri Lanka due to a prior delay. However, due to an injunction issued by the Supreme Court, the election was...

Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 2 April 2004. The ruling United National Party of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was defeated, winning...

Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 5 December 2001, just a little over a year after the previous elections in October 2000. The People's...

Parliamentary elections have been held in Sri Lanka since the first in 1947, under three different constitutions: the Soulbury Constitution, the 1972...

The president of Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා ජනාධිපති Śrī Lankā Janādhipathi; Tamil: இலங்கை ஜனாதிபதி Ilankai janātipati) is the head of state and head...

The prime minister of Sri Lanka, officially the prime minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is the most senior member of parliament...

the Parliamentary Elections Act, No. 1 of 1981, the Sri Lankan Parliament has a five-year term. However, the President of Sri Lanka may dissolve it after...

years of United National Party rule and a revival of Sri Lankan democracy. Democracy in Sri Lanka had seemed doomed as the presidencies of J.R. Jayewardene...

Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 21 July 1977. The result was a landslide victory for the United National Party, which won 140 of the...

"2020 Sri Lankan Parliamentary Elections". Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka: Election Commission of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 7 August 2020. "Parliamentary Election 2020"...

Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 15 February 1989, the first since 1977. The elections that should normally have been held by 1983 had...