Parliamentary elections were held in SriLanka on 15 February 1989, the first since 1977. Theelections that should normally have been held by 1983 had been...
Generalelections were held in India on 22 and 26 November 1989 to elect the members ofthe ninth Lok Sabha. The incumbent Indian National Congress (Indira)...
TheSriLankan Civil War (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සිවිල් යුද්ධය, romanized: śrī laṁkāvē sivil yuddhaya; Tamil: இலங்கை உள்நாட்டுப் போர், romanized: Ilaṅkai...
vote share by a political party since the1989generalelection, and won 303 seats, further increasing its substantial majority. In addition, the BJP-led...
National Party rule and a revival of SriLankan democracy. Democracy in SriLanka had seemed doomed as the presidencies of J.R. Jayewardene and Ranasinghe...
languages and ethnicities. The Sinhalese people form the majority ofthe population, followed bytheSriLankan Tamils, who are the largest minority group...
Eliya electoraldistrict is one ofthe 22 multi-member electoraldistrictsofSriLanka created bythe 1978 Constitution ofSriLanka. Thedistrict is conterminous...
number as stateless people. Bythe 1990s most of these had been given SriLankan citizenship. Most are Hindus with a minority of Christians and Muslims amongst...
Colombo ElectoralDistrict is one ofthe 22 multi-member electoraldistrictsofSriLanka created bythe 1978 Constitution ofSriLanka. Thedistrict is conterminous...
Gampaha electoraldistrict is one ofthe 22 multi-member electoraldistrictsofSriLanka created bythe 1978 Constitution ofSriLanka. Thedistrict is conterminous...
party in SriLanka. The party was formerly a revolutionary movement and was involved in two armed uprisings against the government ofSriLanka: once in...
"exhausted". In SriLanka, since the 1982 presidential election, a variant ofthe contingent vote electoral system is used to elect the country's president...
Yatiyantota' electoraldistrict was an electoraldistrictofSriLanka between March 1960 and February 1989. Thedistrict was named after the town of Yatiyantota...
Anuradhapura electoraldistrict is one ofthe 22 multi-member electoraldistrictsofSriLanka created bythe 1978 Constitution ofSriLanka. Thedistrict is conterminous...
one ofthe 22 multi-member electoraldistrictsofSriLanka created bythe 1978 Constitution ofSriLanka. Thedistrict is conterminous with the administrative...
The Rajapaksa family (Sinhala: රාජපක්ෂ, romanized: Rājapakṣa) is a SriLankan family that is prominent in politics. It was one ofSriLanka's most powerful...
Kurunegala electoraldistrict is one ofthe 22 multi-member electoraldistrictsofSriLanka created bythe 1978 Constitution ofSriLanka. Thedistrict is conterminous...
(Mahanuwara) electoraldistrict is one ofthe 22 multi-member electoraldistrictsofSriLanka created bythe 1978 Constitution ofSriLanka. Thedistrict is conterminous...
establishment of the Kingdom of Tambapanni in the 6th century BCE bythe earliest ancestors ofthe Sinhalese. The first SriLankan ruler ofthe Anuradhapura Kingdom...
Galle electoraldistrict is one ofthe 22 multi-member electoraldistrictsofSriLanka created bythe 1978 Constitution ofSriLanka. Thedistrict is conterminous...
Matara electoraldistrict is one ofthe 22 multi-member electoraldistrictsofSriLanka created bythe 1978 Constitution ofSriLanka. Thedistrict is conterminous...