Election
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The 15th parliamentary election was held on 17 August 2015. [1] [2] [3] [4] The incumbent United National Party (UNP)-led United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) won 106 seats, an increase of 46 since the 2010 election, but failed to secure a majority in Parliament. [5] The main opposition alliance, the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) won 95 seats, a decline of 49. [5] [6] The Tamil National Alliance (TNA), the largest party representing Sri Lankan Tamils, won 16 seats, an increase of two from 2010. [5] The remaining eight seats were won by Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (6), Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (1) and Eelam People's Democratic Party (1). [7]
Results
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |||||
| District | National | Total | ||||||
| United National Front for Good Governance [lower-roman 1] | 5,098,916 | 45.66 | 93 | 13 | 106 | |||
| United People's Freedom Alliance [lower-roman 2] | 4,732,664 | 42.38 | 83 | 12 | 95 | |||
| Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | 543,944 | 4.87 | 4 | 2 | 6 | |||
| Tamil National Alliance [lower-roman 3] | 515,963 | 4.62 | 14 | 2 | 16 | |||
| Sri Lanka Muslim Congress | 44,193 | 0.40 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Eelam People's Democratic Party | 33,481 | 0.30 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| All Ceylon Makkal Congress | 33,102 | 0.30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Democratic Party | 28,587 | 0.26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Buddhist People's Front [lower-roman 4] | 20,377 | 0.18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Tamil National People's Front [lower-roman 5] | 18,644 | 0.17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Ceylon Workers' Congress | 17,107 | 0.15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Frontline Socialist Party | 7,349 | 0.07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| United People's Party | 5,353 | 0.05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Other parties | 24,467 | 0.22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Independents | 42,828 | 0.38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total | 11,166,975 | 100.00 | 196 | 29 | 225 | |||
| Valid votes | 11,166,975 | 95.57 | ||||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 517,123 | 4.43 | ||||||
| Total votes | 11,684,098 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 15,044,490 | 77.66 | ||||||
| Source: Election Commission, Election Commission | ||||||||
- ↑ The UNFGG contested under the name and symbol of UNP. The alliance consisted of the All Ceylon Makkal Congress(which contested separately in one district, Ampara), the Democratic National Movement, Jathika Hela Urumaya, the Muslim Tamil National Alliance, the National Front for Good Governance, the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (which contested separately in two districts, Batticaloa and Vanni), the Tamil Progressive Alliance (the Democratic People's Front, the National Union of Workers and the Up-Country People's Front), the United Left Front and the United National Party.
- ↑ Consisting of the Ceylon Workers' Congress (which contested separately in three districts, Badulla, Kandy and Kegalle), the Citizen's Front (which contested separately in two districts, Nuwara Eliya and Vanni), the Democratic National Front, the Democratic People's Congress, the Liberal Party (which contested separately in four districts, Colombo, Galle, Kurunegala and Matara), Mahajana Eksath Peramuna, the National Congress, the National Freedom Front, Pivithuru Hela Urumaya, the Socialist Alliance (the Communist Party of Sri Lanka, Democratic Left Front, Lanka Sama Samaja Party, National Liberation People's Party and Sri Lanka People's Party), the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal and the United Citizens’ Front.
- ↑ The TNA contested under the name and symbol of Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi. It consisted of the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front, Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi, the People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam and the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization.
- ↑ Bodu Bala Sena and the United Lanka Great Council
- ↑ Contested under the name and symbol of the All Ceylon Tamil Congress.
The new parliament was sworn in on 1 September 2015. [8] Karu Jayasuriya was elected Speaker, Thilanga Sumathipala as the Deputy Speaker and Selvam Adaikalanathan as the Deputy Chairman of Committees. [9] [10] Lakshman Kiriella was appointed Leader of the House and Gayantha Karunathilaka was appointed Chief Government Whip. [11] [12]
The Speaker recognised TNA leader R. Sampanthan as Leader of the Opposition on 3 September 2015. [13] [14] JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was nominated to be Chief Opposition Whip. [15] [16]
The Parliament became a Constitutional Assembly on 9 March 2016 in order to formulate a new constitution for Sri Lanka. [17]
Thilanga Sumathipala resigned as Deputy Speaker on 25 May 2018. [18] [19] His replacement Ananda Kumarasiri was elected on 5 June 2018. [20] [21]
Following the withdrawal of the UPFA from the national government, Mahinda Rajapaksa and Mahinda Amaraweera were recognised as Leader of the Opposition and Chief Opposition Whip respectively on 18 December 2018. [22] [23]
