Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 2 April 2004. The ruling United National Party of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was defeated, winning only eighty two seats in the 225-member Sri Lankan parliament. The opposition United People's Freedom Alliance won 105 seats. While this was eight seats short of an absolute majority, the Alliance was able to form a government.
Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 5 December 2001, just a little over a year after the last elections in October 2000.
The Communist Party of Sri Lanka is a communist party in Sri Lanka. In the 2004 legislative election, the party was part of the United People's Freedom Alliance that won 45.6% of the popular vote and 105 out of 225 seats.
The United People's Freedom Alliance was a political alliance in Sri Lanka founded by former Sri Lankan president Chandrika Kumaratunga in 2004 and dissolved by former Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena in 2019.
The Mahajana Eksath Peramuna is a left-wing political party in Sri Lanka. Today the party is led by Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena, son of Philip Gunawardena.
Presidential elections were held in Sri Lanka on 17 November 2005. Nominations were accepted on 7 September 2005 and electoral participation was 73.73%. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa of the governing United People's Freedom Alliance was elected, receiving 50.3% of all votes cast.
The People's Alliance (PA) was a front of political parties in Sri Lanka, formed in 1994.
Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 16 August 1994. They marked the decisive end of seventeen years of United National Party rule and a revival of Sri Lankan democracy.
Parliamentary elections were held in Ceylon on 19 March 1960.
Dinesh Chandra Rupasinghe Gunawardena is a Sri Lankan politician who is the current Prime Minister of Sri Lanka since 22 July 2022. He has served as a member of parliament, cabinet minister, and Leader of the House in the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He is the current leader of the left-wing Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP) party since 1983.
Tiran Alles, MP is a Sri Lankan businessman and politician. He is a current member of Parliament of Sri Lanka and the Minister of Public Security. Alles had entered politics as an ally of former General Sarath Fonseka and a member of parliament for Fonseka's Democratic National Alliance in 2010. Leaving parliament in 2015, he returned as a member of Mahinda Rajapaksa's Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna and the leader of the United People's Party in 2020 and became a minister in 2022.
The Mahajana Eksath Peramuna was electoral alliance founded in 1956. It consisted of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party led by S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Viplavakari Lanka Sama Samaja Party led by Philip Gunawardena and Sinhala Bhasha Peramuna led by Wijeyananda Dahanayake and I.M.R.A. Iriyagolla (Independents)
Sriyani Wijewickrama is a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. She is an Attorney-at-Law by profession and an alumnus of University of Colombo In 2017 she left the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna to join Sri Lanka Freedom Party and was appointed as the State Minister of Provincial Councils and Local government by President Maithripala Sirisena
The Leader of the House is a position in the Parliament of Sri Lanka and is generally a member of the Cabinet of Sri Lanka who is responsible for arranging government business in the Parliament.
The Chief Government Whip is a position in the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
The Joint Opposition was a political alliance formed by a faction of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) alongside several of the major quasi-left-wing parties of Sri Lanka. It was once the largest opposition group in the Sri Lankan Parliament. It was formed after the two major parties, the SLFP and the United National Party (UNP) forming a unity government, leading to a great degree of discontent amongst many SLFP members, who then went on to form the Joint Opposition alongside other parties from the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA). It aims to give voice to the mandate voters provided to the UPFA at the 2015 general election in which many loyal SLFP members felt abandoned when the party joined the UNP-led government.
The Sri Lanka People's Front, commonly known by its Sinhalese name Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), is a political party in Sri Lanka. Previously a minor political party known as the Sri Lanka National Front (SLNF) and Our Sri Lanka Freedom Front (OSLFF), it was relaunched in 2016 as the SLPP and became the home for members of the United People's Freedom Alliance loyal to its former leader Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Prins Gunasekera was a Ceylonese politician, who represented the Habaraduwa electorate in the Galle district.
The Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance is a left wing political alliance formed in 2019 by the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, Sri Lanka Freedom Party and fifteen smaller parties.
Don Roy Zephrin Rajapakse was a Ceylonese politician.
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