Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 2001
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All 225 seats to the Parliament of Sri Lanka 113 seats were needed for a majority |
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Turnout | 76.03% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Winners of polling divisions. UNF in green and PA in blue.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on December 5, 2001, just a little over a year after the last elections in October 2000.
Contents
Background
The People's Alliance (PA) government faced a blow when most of the SLMC MPs left the coalition. President Chandrika Kumaratunga tried to recruit the JVP to replace it, but this angered several PA MPs, thirteen of which defected to the opposition. A no-confidence motion was prepared; to forestall this, Kumaratunga called the election.
More than 1,300 incidents of election violence were reported during the campaign. [1]. Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake was nearly killed by a suicide bomber. Overall, 60 people were killed in election-related violence, including 14 on polling day. [2]
Parties
- Democratic People's Liberation Front (DFLP)
- Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP)
- People's Alliance (Bahejana Nidasa Pakhsaya, BNP), which consisted of:
- Communist Party of Sri Lanka
- Democratic United National Front
- Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Sri Lanka Equal Society Party, LSSP)
- Sri Lanka Freedom Party (Sri Lanka Nidahas Pakshaya, SLNP)
- Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya (Sri Lanka People's Party, SLMP)
- Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (People's Liberation Front, JVP)
- Sri Lanka Muslim Congress
- Tamil United Liberation Front (Tamil Vimuktasi Peramuna, TVP)
- United National Front, which consisted of:
- United National Party (Eksath Jathika Pakshaya, UNP)
- Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC)
Results
Kumaratunga's People's Alliance lost the resulting general election, which saw the United National Front win the legislative power. The UNP's leader, Ranil Wickremasinghe, became the new prime minister.
Having a President and Prime Minister from different parties proved to be unstable, and Parliament was dissolved again in 2004, leading to yet another general election.
Summary
Alliances and parties | Votes | % | Seats | |||
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District | National | Total | ||||
United National Front[lower-alpha 1] | 4,086,026 | 45.62% | 96 | 13 | 109 | |
People's Alliance | 3,330,815 | 37.19% | 66 | 11 | 77 | |
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | 815,353 | 9.10% | 13 | 3 | 16 | |
Tamil National Alliance[lower-alpha 3] | 348,164 | 3.89% | 14 | 1 | 15 | |
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress{[lower-alpha 2] | 105,346 | 1.18% | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
Eelam People's Democratic Party | 72,783 | 0.81% | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
Democratic People's Liberation Front | 16,669 | 0.19% | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Sinhala Heritage | 50,665 | 0.57% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
New Left Front | 45,901 | 0.51% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Independents | 41,752 | 0.47% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Others | 42,395 | 0.47% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Valid Votes | 8,955,869 | 100.00% | 196 | 29 | 225 | |
Rejected Votes | 493,944 | |||||
Total Polled | 9,449,813 | |||||
Registered Electors | 12,428,762 | |||||
Turnout | 76.03% |
Province
Results of the 2001 Sri Lankan general election by province
Electoral District
Results of the 2001 Sri Lankan general election by electoral district
Elected members
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Notes
- ↑ UNF contested under the name and symbol of United National Party.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 SLMC contested separately in three districts (Ampara, Batticaloa and Jaffna) and with the UNF in all other districts.
- ↑ TNA contested under the name and symbol of Tamil United Liberation Front.
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