None of the 38 candidates in the election are women, though Sri Lanka gave the world its first female PM – Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike – in 1960. Polls suggest Dissanayake could be ...

However, during the 2024 Presidential Poll ... A record 38 contenders vied for Sri Lanka's presidency. For the first time in the country's history, election officials counted the second-preference ...

“At stake is the ability of newly-elected President Dissanayake to pursue the ambitious agenda that won him election in September,” Alan Keenan, a senior consultant on Sri Lanka for the ...

COLOMBO, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka will vote in a snap general election on Thursday, called by new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to secure a majority in parliament to back his policies in ...

Sri Lanka election 2024: This is Sri Lanka's first election after its economy collapsed in 2022 and holds importance for India amid growing influence of China. The island nation of Sri Lanka will ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Voting has ended Saturday in Sri Lanka’s presidential election as the country seeks to recover from the worst economic crisis in its history and the resulting political ...

The Election Commission of Sri Lanka said counting of postal votes began on Saturday (September 21, 2024) evening, and the final result would likely be out on Sunday (September 22, 2024).

Police assist election officials in carrying ballot boxes and other polling materials collected from a distribution centre in Colombo Sri Lanka. The presidential poll will take place today.

16, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) Days after Rajapaksa fled the country, Sri Lanka’s parliament replaced him with then-prime minister Ranil Wickremensignhe in a vote that many protesters ...

Polls opened on Saturday (September 21, 2024) in Sri Lanka’s crucial presidential election — the island nation’s first major electoral exercise since its worst economic meltdown in 2022.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankans voted in a parliamentary election Thursday that is key for the country’s new, Marxist-leaning president to consolidate his party’s power and follow through ...