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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1989, lankan, parliamentary, election, parliamentary, elections, were, held, lanka, february, 1989, first, since, 1977, elections, that, should, normally, have, been, held, 1983, been, cancelled, 1982, referendum, 1977, february, 1989, 1994, outgoing, memberse. 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 1989 Sri Lankan parliamentary election 1977 15 February 1989 1994 outgoing memberselected members All 225 seats in the Parliament of Sri Lanka 113 seats were needed for a majorityTurnout63 60 First party Second party Leader Ranasinghe Premadasa Sirimavo BandaranaikeParty UNP SLFPLeader since 1988 1960Leader s seat n a Gampaha DistrictLast election 50 92 140 seats 29 72 8 seatsSeats won 125 67Seat change 15 59Popular vote 2 837 961 1 780 599Percentage 50 7 31 8 Winners of electoral districts UNP in green and SLFP in blue Prime Minister before electionRanasinghe PremadasaUNP Prime Minister designate Dingiri Banda WijetungaUNP Contents 1 Results 1 1 By province 1 2 By electoral district 2 Notes 3 ReferencesResults Edit nbsp PartyVotes SeatsDistrictNationalTotalUnited National Party a 2 838 00550 7111015125Sri Lanka Freedom Party1 785 36931 9058967Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students b 229 8774 1112113Sri Lanka Muslim Congress202 0163 61314Tamil United Liberation Front c 188 5943 379110United Socialist Alliance d 160 2712 86213Mahajana Eksath Peramuna91 1281 63213United Lanka People s Party67 7231 21000Democratic People s Liberation Front e 18 5020 33000All Ceylon Tamil Congress7 6100 14000Independents7 3730 13000Total5 596 468100 0019629225Valid votes5 596 46893 87Invalid blank votes365 5636 13Total votes5 962 031100 00Registered voters turnout9 374 16463 60Source Election CommissionBy province Edit Further information Results of the 1989 Sri Lankan general election by province By electoral district Edit Further information Results of the 1989 Sri Lankan general election by electoral districtNotes 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 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint unfit URL link Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1989 Sri Lankan parliamentary election amp oldid 1162068991, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
