{"id":95978,"date":"2019-12-03T15:15:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T22:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=95978"},"modified":"2019-12-03T15:15:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T22:15:23","slug":"the-biggest-election-win-in-history-by-gr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/12\/03\/the-biggest-election-win-in-history-by-gr\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Election Win in History by GR"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> This is not  supporting a politician but purely a prescriptive academic exercise in analysing  election results which I do after every national election no matter who wins.  Surprisingly this time there seems to be a dearth of post election  analysts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gotabaya&#8217;s election  victory (52.25%) is the highest in Lankan history.\u00a0<\/strong><br> To be rephrased, the  highest for any oncoming party. The highest for any challenger. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The historical  significance of numbers did surprise me after comparing with past election  results. <br> In 1994 Chandrika  won 62.5% and in 2010 Mahinda won 58%. But those were not their primary election  into power. By November 1994, CBK&#8217;s PA had won in August 1994. It was less than  50%. Mahinda first came to power with just 50.3%. Those high figures were their  reaffirmations. <br> Even in 1977 UNP  managed to win only 50.9%. <br> In 1956, SWRD  Bandaranaike&#8217;s win was only 39.5%. <br> In 2015 Sirisena  won 51.2% which is the second highest for any challenger. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To call a spade a  spade, it must also be accepted that despite the highest ever real election win,  the winner this time was humble enough to hold a low key ceremony in comparison  to his predecessors. There were no large continuing celebrations and he got down  to work almost immediately despite a hostile parliament. <br> Hopefully the list  of good won&#8217;t end there though some signs are up that they  might. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilrook Kannangara This is not supporting a politician but purely a prescriptive academic exercise in analysing election results which I do after every national election no matter who wins. Surprisingly this time there seems to be a dearth of post election analysts. Gotabaya&#8217;s election victory (52.25%) is the highest in Lankan history.\u00a0 To be rephrased, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95978","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=95978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}