16th Parliament of Sri Lanka

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16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
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Overview
Legislative body	Parliament of Sri Lanka
Meeting place	Sri Lankan Parliament Building
Term	20 August 2020 (2020-08-20) –
Election	5 August 2020
Government	Rajapaksa
Website	parliament.lk
Parliamentarians
Members	225
Speaker	Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena (2020-present)
Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees	Ranjith Siyambalapitiya (2020-present)
Deputy Chairman of Committees	Angajan Ramanathan (2020-present)
Prime Minister	Mahinda Rajapaksa (SLPP) (2020-present)
Leader of the Opposition	Sajith Premadasa (2020- )
Leader of the House	Dinesh Gunawardena (2020- )
Chief Government Whip	Johnston Fernando (2020- )
Chief Opposition Whip	Lakshman Kiriella (2020- )
Structure
Sessions
1st 20 August 2020 –

The 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka is the current Parliament of Sri Lanka, with the membership determined by the results of the 2020 parliamentary election held on 5 August 2020. The parliament is yet to meet. According to the Constitution of Sri Lanka the maximum legislative term of the parliament is 5 years from the first meeting.

Election[]

Winners of polling divisions ■ SLPFA ■ SJB ■ TNA ■ SLFP ■ EPDP ■ Other parties

The 16th Parliamentary Election was held on 5 August 2020.^[1] The incumbent party Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance claimed a landslide victory in the election claiming the majority winning 145 seats,^[2][3][4] while Samagi Jana Balawegaya won a total of 54 seats and National People's Power won 3 seats.^[5][6][7] The main opposition United National Party suffered their worst ever landslide defeat in the history as they claimed only one seat and was placed at fourth position in the elections.^[8]

Results[]

The first official results were released on 6 August 2020 in the afternoon starting with the postal votes in the Galle District.^[9]

The SLPFA became the largest group in Parliament after securing 59.09% of votes and 145 seats whilst the SJB won 23.90% of votes and 54 seats.^[10][11] SLPFA managed to exceed the majority cutoff of 113 with obtaining 128 seats from election votes and 17 seats from the national list.^[12]

National[]

Summary of the 2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election^[13][14][15]

Alliances and parties		Votes	%	Seats
				District	National	Total	+/–
	Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance[v] Ceylon Workers' Congress Mahajana Eksath Peramuna National Congress[i] National Freedom Front Pivithuru Hela Urumaya Socialist Alliance Communist Party of Sri Lanka Democratic Left Front[ii] Lanka Sama Samaja Party[iii] National Liberation People's Party Sri Lanka People's Party Sri Lanka Freedom Party[iv] Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna	6,853,690	59.09%	128	17	145	50
	Samagi Jana Balawegaya All Ceylon Makkal Congress[vi] Jathika Hela Urumaya Sri Lanka Muslim Congress[vii] Tamil Progressive Alliance National Union of Workers United Progressive Alliance Democratic People's Front Up-Country People's Front United National Party (Sajith wing)	2,771,980	23.90%	47	7	54	New
	Tamil National Alliance[viii] Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization	327,168	2.82%	9	1	10	6
	National People's Power Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna	445,958	3.84%	2	1	3	3
	Tamil National People's Front[ix] All Ceylon Tamil Congress	67,766	0.58%	1	1	2	2
	Eelam People's Democratic Party	61,464	0.53%	2	0	2	1
	United National Party (Ranil wing)	249,435	2.15%	0	1	1	105
	Our Power of People's Party Bodu Bala Sena	67,758	0.58%	0	1	1	1
	Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal	67,692	0.58%	1	0	1	1
	Sri Lanka Freedom Party[iv]	66,579	0.57%	1	0	1	1
	Muslim National Alliance	55,981	0.48%	1	0	1	1
	Tamil People's National Alliance Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front Eelam Tamil Self Rule Party Tamil National Party Tamil People's Council	51,301	0.44%	1	0	1	1
	All Ceylon Makkal Congress[vi]	43,319	0.37%	1	0	1	1
	National Congress[i]	39,272	0.34%	1	0	1	1
	Sri Lanka Muslim Congress[vii]	34,428	0.30%	1	0	1
	Independents	223,622	1.93%	0	0	0
	United Peace Alliance	31,054	0.27%	0	0	0
	All Lanka Tamil Mahasabha	30,031	0.26%	0	0	0
	National Development Front	14,686	0.13%	0	0	0
	Frontline Socialist Party	14,522	0.13%	0	0	0
	Social Democratic Party of Tamils	11,464	0.10%	0	0	0
	Tamil United Liberation Front	9,855	0.08%	0	0	0
	Socialist Party of Sri Lanka	9,368	0.08%	0	0	0
	People's Welfare Front	7,361	0.06%	0	0	0
	Sinhalese National Front	5,056	0.04%	0	0	0
	New Democratic Front	4,883	0.04%	0	0	0
	United Left Front	4,879	0.04%	0	0	0
	Liberal Party of Sri Lanka	4,345	0.04%	0	0	0
	National People's Party	3,813	0.03%	0	0	0
	Democratic United National Front	3,611	0.03%	0	0	0
	National Democratic Front	3,488	0.03%	0	0	0
	Sri Lanka Labour Party	3,134	0.03%	0	0	0
	Democratic Left Front	2,964	0.03%	0	0	0
	New Sinhala Heritage	1,397	0.01%	0	0	0
	United Socialist Party	1,189	0.01%	0	0	0
	Motherland People's Party	1,087	0.01%	0	0	0
	Eelavar Democratic Front	1,035	0.01%	0	0	0
	Socialist Equality Party	780	0.01%	0	0	0
	Lanka Sama Samaja Party[iii]	737	0.01%	0	0	0
	All Are Citizens All Are Kings Organization	632	0.01%	0	0	0
	Democratic Unity Alliance	145	0.00%	0	0	0
Valid Votes		11,598,929	100.00%	196	29	225
Rejected Votes		744,373	6.03%
Total Polled		12,343,302	75.89%
Registered Electors		16,263,885
Footnotes: ^ a b The NC contested separately in two districts (Ampara and Polonnaruwa) and with the SLPFA in other districts. ^ The DLF contested separately in two districts (Jaffna and Vanni) and with the SLPFA in other districts. ^ a b The LSSP contested separately in one district (Jaffna) and with the SLPFA in other districts. ^ a b The SLFP contested separately in three districts (Jaffna, Kalutara and Nuwara Eliya) and with the SLPFA in other districts. ^ The SLPFA contested under the name and symbol of SLPP. ^ a b The ACMC contested separately in one district (Ampara) and with the SJB in other districts. ^ a b The SLMC contested separately in one district (Batticaloa) and with the SJB in other districts. ^ The TNA contested under the name and symbol of ITAK. ^ The TNPF contested under the name and symbol of ACTC.

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