{"id":47148,"date":"2015-08-20T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=47148"},"modified":"2015-08-20T06:03:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T13:03:23","slug":"what-happened-to-58lakh-votes-who-voted-for-mahinda-rajapakse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/08\/20\/what-happened-to-58lakh-votes-who-voted-for-mahinda-rajapakse\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT HAPPENED TO 58LAKH VOTES WHO VOTED FOR MAHINDA RAJAPAKSE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shenali Waduge<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

WHAT HAPPENED TO 58LAKH VOTES WHO VOTED FOR MAHINDA RAJAPAKSE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n2015 January Presidential Elections<\/strong><\/td>\n2015 August Parliamentary Elections<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Registered voters<\/td>\n15,044,490<\/td>\n15,044,490 (same number as January)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Who voted<\/td>\n12,264,377<\/td>\n11,684,098 (580,279 did not vote)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rejected votes<\/td>\n140,925<\/td>\n517,123 (376,198 more rejected than January)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Voter turnout<\/td>\n81%<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Votes for Maithripala Sirisena<\/td>\n6,217,162 – 51.28%<\/td>\nUNF – 5,098,916 – 45.66%TNA – 515,963 – 4.62%JVP – 543,944 – 4.87%<\/p>\n

(the 3 totals 6,158,823 come close to the votes MY3 received in January with a shortfall of 58339 which can be made up by totally below SL Muslim Congress and other votes which would have gone o MY3 in January)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Voters for Mahinda Rajapakse<\/td>\n5,768,090 – 47.58%<\/td>\nUPFA – 4,732,664 – 42.38%There a 1,029,426 difference from January?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total of votes secured by 17 other candidates<\/td>\n138,200<\/td>\nTotal votes secured by below = 275,491SLMC – 44,193EPDP – 33,481<\/p>\n

Independents – <\/strong>42,828<\/strong><\/p>\n

ACMC – 33,102<\/p>\n

DP – 28,587<\/p>\n

BBS – 20,377<\/strong><\/p>\n

ACTC – 18,644<\/p>\n

CWC – 17,107<\/p>\n

FSP – 7,349<\/strong><\/p>\n

UPP – 5,353<\/p>\n

Others – 24,467<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n