Sri Lanka Election Results Chart 2019
Gotabaya rajapaksa is the winning candidate.
Sri lanka election results chart 2019. Religious nationalism influenced sri lanka s election results and that influence is not going away anytime soon. By bahauddin foizee for the diplomat december 13 2019. Final result of the presidential election 2019 held in sri lanka.
The incumbent president maithripala sirisena s term of office would have ended on 9 january 2020. We are recommending our readers to watch this official channel to have the official results as there are many websites and social media spreading fake news. Gotabaya rajapaksha won this election.
All island final result. The 2019 sri lankan presidential election was the 8th presidential election which was held on 16 november 2019. In the highly competitive news broadcasting space derana has built the most unbiased and comprehensive news property on offer ada derana with a news team of 100 people geared to deliver the most accurate and timely information.
Sri lanka s former defense secretary gotabaya rajapaksa has been elected as the country s new president winning 52 2 of the vote according to the chairman of sri lanka s election commission. Unity will be hard to achieve. Nov 17 2019 november 17 2019 november 17 2019 no comment by administrator nuwara eliya district results presidential election 2019 sri lanka posted in election results.
Elections commission with the support of the government information department in sri lanka is live streaming the result of the presidential election. On 13th november 2015 members for the independent election commission were appointed thus establishing the election commission with effect from november 2015 under the 19th amendment to the constitution. The results were released on 17 november 2019 and gotabaya managed to cross the majority mark to win t.
The election results have shown how polarised this country is. Mahinda deshapriya commissioner of elections was appointed as the chairman of election commission while the other two members of the commission were mr.