Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 1989
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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 | 63.60% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Winners of electoral districts. UNP in green and SLFP in blue.
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Sri Lanka had not had a parliamentary election since 1977. The elections that should normally have been held by 1983 had been cancelled by the 1982 referendum.
President Ranasinghe Premadasa called the election for February 15.
Contents
Results
Summary
Alliances and parties | Votes | % | Seats | |||
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District | National | Total | ||||
United National Party | 2,838,005 | 50.71% | 110 | 15 | 125 | |
Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 1,785,369 | 31.90% | 58 | 9 | 67 | |
Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students[lower-alpha 1] | 229,877 | 4.11% | 12 | 1 | 13 | |
Tamil United Liberation Front | 188,594 | 3.37% | 9 | 1 | 10 | |
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress | 202,016 | 3.61% | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
United Socialist Alliance | 160,271 | 2.86% | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna | 91,128 | 1.63% | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
United Lanka People's Party | 67,723 | 1.21% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Democratic People's Liberation Front | 18,502 | 0.33% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
All Ceylon Tamil Congress | 7,610 | 0.14% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Independents | 7,373 | 0.13% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Valid Votes | 5,596,468 | 100.00% | 196 | 29 | 225 | |
Rejected Votes | 365,563 | |||||
Total Polled | 5,962,031 | |||||
Registered Electors | 9,374,164 | |||||
Turnout | 63.60% |
Province
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Electoral District
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Elected members
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Notes
- ↑ EROS contested as an independent group in four districts (Batticaloa, Jaffna, Trincomalee and Vanni).
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