{"id":145828,"date":"2024-11-16T15:29:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T22:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=145828"},"modified":"2024-11-16T15:29:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T22:29:15","slug":"2024-general-election-voter-turnout-down-10-compared-to-presidential-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/11\/16\/2024-general-election-voter-turnout-down-10-compared-to-presidential-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 General Election: Voter turnout down 10% compared to presidential poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Commissioner General of Elections Saman Sri Rathnayake states that there has been a significant reduction by 10% of the voter turnout in 2024 General Election, in comparison with Sri Lanka\u2019s Presidential Election which was held in September 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Elections Commissioner General also confirmed that 5% of the ballots casted have been rejected, which is 667,240 votes in total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total number of votes polled is 11,815,246 which amounts to a 68.93% of total registered votes out of which 11,148,006 were considered valid, according to the Election Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, Mr. Rathnayake clarified that only a candidate who contested the General Election and was defeated or a person whose name has already been mentioned in their party or independent group\u2019s national list can enter the Parliament as an MP for the national list seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also emphasized that all candidates who contested the election must submit their expenses reports to the Election Commission within 21 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Elections Commissioner General, over 3.5 million citizens who were eligible to vote had not casted their votes during 2024 Presidential Election. The figure was 21.54% of the population that were eligible to cast their vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had previously clarified that out of 17,140,354 registered voters, a total of 13,619,916 had cast their votes in the Presidential Election which was 79.46%, while 3,520,438 (21.54%) did not vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Commissioner General of Elections Saman Sri Rathnayake states that there has been a significant reduction by 10% of the voter turnout in 2024 General Election, in comparison with Sri Lanka\u2019s Presidential Election which was held in September 21. The Elections Commissioner General also confirmed that 5% of the ballots casted have been [&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-145828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145828","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=145828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}