More SHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP via Getty Images Dissanayake's Gains In Tamil Strongholds Of the 225 seats in parliament, 196 were directly up for grabs under Sri Lanka's electoral system.

Ishara S. Kodikara/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. By Maria Abi-Habib. Aug. 6, 2020. ... Mahinda Rajapaksa was president of Sri Lanka from 2005 until losing elections in 2015, ...

An election official transports a sealed ballot box to a counting centre at the end of voting in Sri Lanka’s legislative elections in Colombo on 14 November 2024 (AFP via Getty Images) ...

Getty Images. Sri Lanka's former president fled the country in 2022 after months-long protests. ... No election in Sri Lanka has ever progressed to the second round of counting, ...

Sri Lanka just held a parliamentary election and the results were unsurprising. The Sri Lanka People’s Front (SLPP) dominated, winning 145 seats and nearly 60% of the vote. The SLPP and its allies ...

Newspapers for sale at a stall in Colombo on January 10, 2015, leading with headlines about Sri Lanka's new president Maithripala Sirisena. (Akruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP/Getty Images) Last week the ...

In his 2019 election campaign, he promised to move Sri Lanka to organic farming in a ... Tea production is one of the main sources of trade for Sri Lanka. CM Dixon/Heritage Images via Getty Images.

Sri Lanka's 17.1 million registered voters had to choose from more than 8,800 candidates in an election marked by a low-key campaign. Election monitors estimated turnout at 60-65%. “Voter ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake departing the election commission office after winning the Sri Lankan presidential election in Colombo, Sri Lanka, ... Ishara S.Kodikara/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images.

Results show Sri Lanka’s powerful Rajapaksa brothers secured a landslide victory in the Parliamentary election.

Image source, Getty Images. ... Polls have closed in Sri Lanka's election, where voters are choosing a new president for the first time since mass protests unseated the country's leader in 2022.