{"id":145806,"date":"2024-11-15T02:33:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T09:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=145806"},"modified":"2024-11-15T02:33:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T09:33:51","slug":"sri-lankan-presidents-leftist-coalition-scores-landslide-victory-in-snap-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/11\/15\/sri-lankan-presidents-leftist-coalition-scores-landslide-victory-in-snap-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan president\u2019s leftist coalition scores landslide victory in snap polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Sri Lanka news<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Election Commission of Sri Lanka has released the all-island final results in the 2024 General Election with the National People\u2019s Power (NPP) securing a resounding victory in the Parliamentary Poll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NPP has won 159 seats including 18 bonus seats after polling a total of over 6.8 million votes, which is 61.56% of the total votes counted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) becomes the main opposition party of the tenth Parliament after polling over 1.9 million votes (17.66%) and thereby obtaining 40 seats including 5 bonus seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ilankai Thamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) has won 8 seats including 1 bonus seat, New Democratic Front (NDF) has won 5 seats including 2 bonus seats while the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has managed only 3 seats including 1 bonus seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, \u2018Sarvajana Balaya\u2019 failed to win any seats, however, has managed to secure one bonus seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United National Party (UNP), Democratic Tamil National Alliance (DTNA) All Ceylon Tamil Congress (ACTC), All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC), Jaffna &#8211; Independent Group 17 and Sri Lanka Labour Party (SLLP) have won one seat each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>National People\u2019s Power (NPP) \u2013 6,863,186 (159 seats)<br>Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB)&nbsp; &#8211; 1,968,716 (40 seats)<br>Ilankai Thamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) \u2013 257,813 (8 seats)<br>New Democratic Front (NDF) \u2013 500,835 (5 seats)<br>Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) \u2013 350,429 (3 seats)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/792591313\/All-Island-Result-2024-General-Election#from_embed\">All Island Result &#8211; 2024 General Election<\/a>&nbsp;by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/537385388\/Adaderana-Online#from_embed\">Adaderana Online<\/a>&nbsp;on Scribdhttps:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/792591313\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-Z5LyIkoL2KgN4p8Gr4aZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka news The Election Commission of Sri Lanka has released the all-island final results in the 2024 General Election with the National People\u2019s Power (NPP) securing a resounding victory in the Parliamentary Poll. NPP has won 159 seats including 18 bonus seats after polling a total of over 6.8 million votes, which is 61.56% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}