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Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 5 December 2001, just a little over a year after the previous elections in October 2000.
The People's Alliance (PA) government faced a blow when most of the SLMC MPs left the coalition. President Chandrika Kumaratunga tried to recruit the JVP to replace it, but this angered several PA MPs, thirteen of which defected to the opposition. A no-confidence motion was prepared; to forestall this, Kumaratunga called the election.
More than 1,300 incidents of election violence were reported during the campaign. . Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake was nearly killed by a suicide bomber. Overall, 60 people were killed in election-related violence, including 14 on polling day.
The ruling People's Alliance lost the election, which saw the United National Front win the legislative power. UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe became the new prime minister.
Having the President and Prime Minister belong to two different parties proved to be unstable, and Parliament was dissolved again in 2004, leading to yet another general election.
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |||||
| District | National | Total | ||||||
| United National Front [lower-alpha 1] | 4,086,026 | 45.62 | 96 | 13 | 109 | |||
| People's Alliance [lower-alpha 2] | 3,330,815 | 37.19 | 66 | 11 | 77 | |||
| Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | 815,353 | 9.10 | 13 | 3 | 16 | |||
| Tamil National Alliance [lower-alpha 3] | 348,164 | 3.89 | 14 | 1 | 15 | |||
| Sri Lanka Muslim Congress | 105,346 | 1.18 | 4 | 1 | 5 | |||
| Eelam People's Democratic Party | 72,783 | 0.81 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |||
| Sinhala Heritage | 50,665 | 0.57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| New Left Front | 45,901 | 0.51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Democratic People's Liberation Front | 16,669 | 0.19 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| United Socialist Party | 9,455 | 0.11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| National Democratic Party | 6,952 | 0.08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Democratic Left Front | 6,214 | 0.07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| United Lalith Front | 3,851 | 0.04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Eksath Sinhala Maha Sabha | 2,771 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Muslim United Liberation Front | 2,644 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Motherland People's Party | 1,630 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Jathika Sangwardhena Peramuna | 1,624 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Bahujana Nidahas Peramuna | 1,361 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Liberal Party | 1,152 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Ruhunu Janatha Party | 1,089 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Democratic United National Front | 978 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Sri Lanka Progressive Front | 854 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Sri Lanka Muslim Katchi | 802 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Sri Lanka National Front | 719 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Socialist Equality Party | 243 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Eksath Lanka Podujana Pakshaya | 56 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Independents | 41,752 | 0.47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total | 8,955,869 | 100.00 | 196 | 29 | 225 | |||
| Valid votes | 8,955,869 | 94.77 | ||||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 493,944 | 5.23 | ||||||
| Total votes | 9,449,813 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 12,428,762 | 76.03 | ||||||
| Source: Election Commission | ||||||||
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