Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 15 February 1989, the first since 1977. The elections that should normally have been held by 1983 had been cancelled by the 1982 referendum.
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All 225 seats in 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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Results
edit| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |||||
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| District | National | Total | ||||||
| United National Party[a] | 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[b] | 229,877 | 4.11 | 12 | 1 | 13 | |||
| Sri Lanka Muslim Congress | 202,016 | 3.61 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
| Tamil United Liberation Front[c] | 188,594 | 3.37 | 9 | 1 | 10 | |||
| United Socialist Alliance[d] | 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[e] | 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 | |||
| Total | 5,596,468 | 100.00 | 196 | 29 | 225 | |||
| Valid votes | 5,596,468 | 93.87 | ||||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 365,563 | 6.13 | ||||||
| Total votes | 5,962,031 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 9,374,164 | 63.60 | ||||||
| Source: Election Commission | ||||||||
By province
editBy electoral district
editNotes
edit- ^ Including the Ceylon Workers' Congress.
- ^ Contested as an independent group in Batticaloa, Jaffna, Trincomalee and Vanni.
- ^ Consisting of the Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front, the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front, the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization and the Tamil United Liberation Front.
- ^ Consisting of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, the Nava Sama Samaja Party and Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya.
- ^ Including the People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam.
References
edit- "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1989" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-04.
- "Table 39 Parliament Election (1989)". Sri Lanka Statistics. 10 February 2009. Archived from the original on 9 October 2011. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
- "Sri Lanka Parliamentary Chamber: Parliament Elections Held in 1989". Inter-Parliamentary Union.
- Rajasingham, K. T. (27 April 2002). "Chapter 37: Talking peace". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story. Asia Times. Archived from the original on 22 June 2002.
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