Sri Lanka has gone to a second round of vote counting after none of the candidates met the 50 per cent plus one vote threshold required to win the presidency. President Ranil Wickremesinghe in a shock ...

Whilst alleging that there have been irregularities with regard to the second preference vote count at the Presidential ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a Marxist-leaning politician, has surged ahead in the early results of Sri Lanka's presidential ...

The latest results showed Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna party's broader front National People’s Power (NPP) had won 39.52 per cent of the votes counted.

Sri Lanka's Election Commission Chairman, R.L.A.M. Ratnayake, announced on Sunday that a second preference count will be ...

In an unexpected turn of events, Sri Lanka polls, Elections Commission Chairman RLAM Ratnayake announced a second preference count. This decision came after early trends showed Anura Kumara ...

National People's Power (NPP) leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake seems set to become Sri Lanka’s ninth executive president on ...

Sri Lanka's presidential election has entered a second round of counting for the first time in history, as no candidate ...

Sri Lanka's presidential election has advanced to a second round for the first time in history as no candidate achieved over ...

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe and candidate Namal Rajapaksa voted in the 2024 presidential election, crucial for ...

Sri Lankans are voting for a new president in the first election since mass protests sparked by the country's worst-ever ...