2010 Sri Lankan parliamentary election information
Election in Sri Lanka
2010 Sri Lankan parliamentary election
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All 225 seats to the Parliament of Sri Lanka 113 seats were needed for a majority
Turnout
61.26%
First party
Second party
Leader
Mahinda Rajapaksa
Ranil Wickremesinghe
Party
UPFA
UNF
Leader since
2005
1994
Leader's seat
n/a
Colombo District
Last election
45.60%, 105 seats
37.83%, 82 seats
Seats won
144
60
Seat change
39
22
Popular vote
4,846,388
2,357,057
Percentage
60.33%
29.34%
Swing
14.73%
8.49%
Third party
Fourth party
Leader
Rajavarothiam Sampanthan
Sarath Fonseka
Party
TNA
DNA
Leader since
2001
2010
Leader's seat
Trincomalee District
Colombo District
Last election
6.84%, 22 seats
–
Seats won
14
7
Seat change
8
New
Popular vote
233,190
441,251
Percentage
2.90%
5.49%
Swing
3.94%
New
Winners of polling divisions. UPFA in blue, UNF in green and TNA in yellow.
Prime Minister before election
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake
UPFA
Prime Minister after election
D. M. Jayaratne
UPFA
Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 8 and 20 April 2010, to elect 225 members to Sri Lanka's 14th Parliament.[1] 14,088,500 Sri Lankans were eligible to vote in the election at 11,102 polling stations. It was the first general election to be held in Sri Lanka following the conclusion of the civil war which lasted 26 years.
The main parties contesting in the election were the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA), the main opposition United National Front (UNF) and the Democratic National Alliance (DNA) led by former commander of the Sri Lankan Army Sarath Fonseka. President Mahinda Rajapaksa had previously been reelected as president in January 2010.
As expected, the UPFA secured a landslide victory in the elections, buoyed by its achievement of ending the 30 year Sri Lankan Civil War and defeating the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in May 2009. The UPFA won a large majority in the parliament, obtaining 144 seats, an increase of 39 since the 2004 election. The main opposition UNF won 60 seats, a decline of 22. The minority Tamil party Tamil National Alliance (TNA) won 14 seats, down from the 22 they won in 2004, and the DNA, contesting for the first time, won 7 seats.[2][3] The UPFA however fell short of its goal of obtaining a two-thirds supermajority in the house, which it would have needed to change the constitution on its own.[4] The election had the lowest voter turnout in Sri Lanka since independence.[5]
While the elections were initially scheduled to be concluded on 8 April, irregularities in two districts led the Commissioner of Elections to hold re-polls on 20 April. Final results were announced the following day, a day before the new parliament was scheduled to meet for the first time.
^"6th Parliament Dissolved". News and Events. Parliament of Sri Lanka. 10 February 2010. Archived from the original on 4 March 2010. Retrieved 13 February 2010.
^Sirilal, Ranga. "Sri Lanka ruling party records landslide win at polls". Montrealgazette.com. Archived from the original on 2010-04-24. Retrieved 2010-04-21.
^"Department of Election". Slelections.gov.lk. Archived from the original on 2010-04-21. Retrieved 2010-04-21.
^"Sri Lanka ruling party wins majority in parliament", BBC News, 9 April 2010
^Haviland, Charles (21 April 2010). "Final Sri Lanka vote count confirms Rajapaksa triumph". BBC News. Retrieved 21 April 2010.
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