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 previous elections in October 2000.
Sri Lanka elects on the national level a head of state –the president –and a legislature. Sri Lanka has a multi-party system,with two dominant political parties. All elections are administered by the Election Commission of Sri Lanka.
The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna is a leftist political party in Sri Lanka. The party was formerly a revolutionary movement and was involved in two armed uprisings against the government of Sri Lanka:once in 1971 (SLFP),and another in 1987–1989 (UNP). The motive for both uprisings was to establish a socialist state. Since then the JVP has entered mainstream democratic politics and has updated its ideology,abandoning some of its original Marxist policies such as the abolition of private property. The JVP has been led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake since 2014.
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.
The Jathika Nidahas Peramuna (JNP) or National Freedom Front (NFF) is a political party in Sri Lanka which was formed by ten JVP parliamentarians led by Wimal Weerawansa,as a breakaway group of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP).
Anura Kumara Dissanayake,commonly referred to by his initials AKD,is a Sri Lankan Marxist politician and the tenth and current president of Sri Lanka. Dissanayake was the first Sri Lankan president to be elected in a second round of vote counting,and the first elected president not from Sri Lanka's traditional political parties.
Sunil Handunnetti is a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka who has served as the Minister of Industries and Entrepreneurship Development since November 2024. A member of the National People's Power and Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna,he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Matara Electoral District in 2024 Sri Lankan parliamentary election.He formerly contested 2010 parliamentary elections under the Democratic National Alliance (DNA),which is led by former army chief Sarath Fonseka and was re-elected to Parliament from Colombo District.
Kuragamage Don Lalkantha is a Sri Lankan politician who has served as the Minister of Minister of Agriculture,Livestock,Land and Irrigation since 2024.A member of National People's Power and Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna,he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Kandy Electoral District in 2024 Sri Lankan parliamentary election. He was formerly member of the parliament for Anuradhapura District from 2001 to 2010.
Bimal Rathnayake is a Sri Lankan politician who serves as the Minister of Transport,Highways,Ports and Civil Aviation and Leader of the House since November 2024. A longstanding member of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP),Rathnayake is member of the JVP Politburo,a national executive member of National People's Power (NPP) and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka for the National List.
Samantha Vidyaratna is a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka who has served as the Minister of Plantation and Community Infrastructure since November 2024.A member of National People's Power and Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna,he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Badulla Electoral District in 2024 Sri Lankan parliamentary election. He was formerly member of the parliament for Anuradhapura District from 2004 to 2010. He fought over the Uma Oya issue and the transfer of 65,000 acres of land to a Singaporean company.
Shantha Bandara alias Mahanama (1951−1990) was the first convenor of the Inter University Students' Federation (IUSF) and a key leader of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna,a Marxist-Leninist political party in Sri Lanka. He was killed in January 1990.
Inter-University Students' Federation is a confederation of students' unions across Sri Lanka. Around 70 students' unions are affiliated with the confederation,accounting for more than 95% of all higher and further education unions in Sri Lanka. The IUSF is the organization that is given leadership to whole university students in Sri Lanka. It is the largest student organization in Sri Lanka to date. It represents the voice of student councils and action committees in 15 higher education institutes including all major universities and technical colleges in Sri Lanka.
The 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka was a meeting of the Parliament of Sri Lanka,with the membership determined by the results of the 2001 parliamentary election held on 5 December 2001. The parliament met for the first time on 19 December 2001 and was dissolved prematurely on 7 February 2004.
The assassination of Daya Pathirana took place on 15 December 1986. Daya Pathirana was the leader of the Independent Students Union of University of Colombo during 1985–1986. Pro-Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna activists are accused of his murder. This assassination is considered as a watershed incident in the 1987–1989 Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna insurrection.
Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa is a Sri Lankan politician who serves as the Minister of Health and Mass Media,Chief Government Whip and Cabinet Spokesperson of Sri Lanka since November 2024. A member of the National People's Power,he was elected to the Parliament of Sri Lanka in 2024 from Kalutara District. He was previously elected from Kalutara District in 2015 and lost at 2020 election. He is also a member of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna.
Weerahennedige Theodore Wilfred Meryl Fernando was a Ceylonese teacher,trade unionist,politician and Member of Parliament.
The National People's Power (NPP) or Jathika Jana Balawegaya (JJB) is a left-wing political party in Sri Lanka. It is the current ruling party of Sri Lanka,led by Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna. having won the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections,and is currently the largest party in the Parliament of Sri Lanka. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is the current leader of the electoral coalition and Nihal Abeysinghe is the general secretary.
Sena Nanayakkara is a Sri Lankan politician and academic who serves as a Member of Parliament for the Anuradhapura Electoral District since November 2024. He was elected during the 2024 Sri Lankan parliamentary election,securing 86,150 preferential votes. He is affiliated with the National People's Power coalition and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna.
Rathnayake Hettige Upali Samarasinghe is a Sri Lankan politician and long-time member of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). He was appointed as a National List Member of Parliament in 2024 under the National People's Power (NPP) government.
