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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 been cancelled by the 1982 referendum.
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |||||
| District | National | Total | ||||||
| United National Party [a] | 2,838,005 | 50.71 | 110 | 15 | 125 | |||
| Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 1,785,369 | 31.90 | 58 | 9 | 67 | |||
| Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students [b] | 229,877 | 4.11 | 12 | 1 | 13 | |||
| Sri Lanka Muslim Congress | 202,016 | 3.61 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
| Tamil United Liberation Front [c] | 188,594 | 3.37 | 9 | 1 | 10 | |||
| United Socialist Alliance [d] | 160,271 | 2.86 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Mahajana Eksath Peramuna | 91,128 | 1.63 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| United Lanka People's Party | 67,723 | 1.21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Democratic People's Liberation Front [e] | 18,502 | 0.33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| All Ceylon Tamil Congress | 7,610 | 0.14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Independents | 7,373 | 0.13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total | 5,596,468 | 100.00 | 196 | 29 | 225 | |||
| Valid votes | 5,596,468 | 93.87 | ||||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 365,563 | 6.13 | ||||||
| Total votes | 5,962,031 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 9,374,164 | 63.60 | ||||||
| Source: Election Commission | ||||||||
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