2004 Sri Lankan parliamentary election

Election 2004 Sri Lankan parliamentary election Sri Lanka parliamentary 2001 Sri Lankan parliamentary election 2001 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka 2010 Sri Lankan parliamentary election 2010 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka All 225 seats in the Parliament of Sri Lanka 113 seats were needed for a majority 2 April 2004 75.96% Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga As The President of Sri Lanka.jpg Chandrika Kumaratunga 1994 United People's Freedom Alliance n/a 37.20%, 77 seatsAs People's Alliance 105 12 4,223,970 45.60% 0.01% File:Defense.gov News Photo 031103-D-2987S-069 (cropped).jpg Ranil Wickremesinghe 1994 United National Front (Sri Lanka) Colombo District 45.60%, 109 seats 82 27 3,504,200 37.83% 7.73% Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election 2004.png 250px Winners of polling divisions. UPFA in blue and UNF in green. Prime Minister Prime Minister-designate Ranil Wickremesinghe Mahinda Rajapaksa United National Front (Sri Lanka) United People's Freedom Alliance Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 2 April 2004. The ruling United National Party of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was defeated, winning only eighty two seats in the 225-member Sri Lankan parliament. The opposition United People's Freedom Alliance won 105 seats. While this was eight seats short of an absolute majority, the Alliance was able to form a government. On 6 April, President Chandrika Kumaratunga appointed former Minister of Labour Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister. Parties The United People's Freedom Alliance was formed as an alliance between President Kumaratunga's party, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), and the leftist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna. Other parties that belong to the People's Alliance, such as the Communist Party of Sri Lanka, the Democratic United National Front, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, Mahajana Eksath Peramuna and the Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya, later joined UPFA. In the 2001 elections, the People's Alliance and Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna had fought separately. Then the JVP won 9.1% of the vote and sixteen seats. At this election it is reported than as many as thirty nine JVP members won seats as UPFA candidates. The runner-up in the election was the United National Front (UNF), the front led by the United National Party. In addition to the UNP, the UNF also had candidates from minor parties such as Ceylon Workers Congress. Other parties winning seats were the Buddhist, Sinhala nationalist outfit Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU), the pro-LTTE alliance Tamil National Alliance (TNA), the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) and the Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP). The Democratic Peoples Liberation Front (the political wing of PLOTE) lost their parliamentary representation. Campaign Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe's UNF government had been in limbo since October 2003, when President Kumaratunga declared a state of emergency and took three key cabinet portfolios for her party. During the campaign, she argued that Wickremasinghe had been too soft on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and promised to take a harder line. The UNF, for its part, stressed the economic gains that had been made with the ceasefire and the need to find a negotiated solution to the civil war. Voting Polling booths opened at 07:00 local time and remained open until 16:00 (01:00 to 10:00 UTC). A total of 10,670 polling stations were installed to receive votes from 12.9 million eligible voters. Voter turnout was high, at around 75%. The backdrop to polling day was tense, with continued guerrilla activity by Tamil Tiger separatists and five politically motivated murders in the run-up to the election. However, except for a slightly lower turnout in the Eastern Province, Sri Lanka and allegations of fraud in the North, the election was calm and orderly. Sri Lanka's Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake said that despite reported cases of electoral malpractice in certain polling stations in six electoral districts, there would be no fresh elections in these areas and the results issued by the Commission were final. Results The United People's Freedom Alliance vote and seat totals are compared with the combined People's Alliance and JVP vote and seat counts at the 2001 election. File:Sri Lanka Parliament 2004.svg District National Total United People's Freedom AllianceIncluded the Communist Party of Sri Lanka, the Desha Vimukthi Janatha Party, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, Mahajana Eksath Peramuna, the National Muslim Congress, the National Unity Alliance, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya. 4223970 92 13 105 United National FrontContested under the name and symbol of the United National Party. Also consisted of the Ceylon Workers' Congress, the Democratic People's Front and the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (which contested separately in Ampara, Batticaloa, Jaffna and Trincomalee). 3504200 71 11 82 Tamil National AllianceContested under the name and symbol of Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi. Also consisted of the All Ceylon Tamil Congress, the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front and the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization. 633654 20 2 22 Jathika Hela Urumaya 552724 7 2 9 Sri Lanka Muslim Congress 186876 4 1 5 Up-Country People's Front 49728 1 0 1 Eelam People's Democratic Party 24955 1 0 1 National Development Front 14956 0 0 0 United Socialist Party 14660 0 0 0 Ceylon Democratic Unity Alliance 10736 0 0 0 New Left Front 8461 0 0 0 Democratic People's Liberation FrontIncluding the People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam. 7326 0 0 0 United Muslim People's Alliance 3779 0 0 0 United Lalith Front 3773 0 0 0 National People's Party 1540 0 0 0 Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya 1401 0 0 0 Swarajya 1136 0 0 0 Sri Lanka Progressive Front 814 0 0 0 Ruhuna People's Party 590 0 0 0 Sri Lanka National Front 493 0 0 0 Liberal Party of Sri Lanka 413 0 0 0 Sri Lanka Muslim Party 382 0 0 0 Socialist Equality Party 159 0 0 0 Democratic United National Front 141 0 0 0 Independents 15865 0 0 0 534948 196 29 225 12899139 By province Results of the 2004 Sri Lankan general election by province By electoral district Results of the 2004 Sri Lankan general election by electoral district District UNP UPFA Other ValidVotes Colombo 441,841 (41.8%)9 seats 414,688 (39.2%)8 seats JHU: 190,618 (18.0%)3 seats 1,057,966 Gampaha 367,572 (37.1%)6 seats 509,963 (51.5%)9 seats JHU: 102,516 (19.4%)2 seats 990,002 Kaluthara 212,721 (37.8%)3 seats 291,208 (51.7%)6 seats JHU: 56,615 (10.1)1 seat 563,019 Kandy 313,859 (50.0%)6 seats 268,131 (42.7%)5 seats JHU: 42,192 (6.7%)1 seat 627,866 Matale 100,642 (45.7%)2 seats 108,259 (49.2%)3 seats JHU: 8,819 (4.0%) 220,062 Nuwara-Eliya 176,971 (54.0%)4 seats 82,945 (25.3%)2 seats JHU: 4,454 (1.4%)Other: 63,239 (19.3%)1 seat 327,609 Galle 209,399 (38.7%)4 seats 306,385 (56.6%)6 seats JHU: 22,826 (4.2%) 541,511 Matara 139,633 (34.9%)3 seats 241,235 (60.3%)5 seats JHU: 16,229 (4.0%) 400,233 Hambantota 98,877 (35.4%)2 seats 178,895 (64.0)5 seats JHU: 1,538 (0.5%) 279,310 Jaffna - - ITAK: 257,320 (90.6%)8 seatsEPDP: 18,612 (6.5%)1 seatSLMC: 1,995 (0.7%) 284,026 Vanni 16,213 (13.4%)1 seat 6,415 (05.3%) ITAK: 90,252 (74.7%)5 seatsDPLF: 6,028 (4.99%)EPDP: 1,084 (0.9%) 120,848 Batticaloa 6,151 (2.5%) 26,268 (10.9%) ITAK: 161,011 (66.7%)4 seatsSLMC: 43,131 (17.9%)1 seat 241,375 Digamadulla 42,121 (14.5%)1 seat 111,747 (38.5%)3 seats SLMC: 76,563 (26.4%)2 seatsITAK: 55,533 (19.1%)1 seatEPDP: 1,611 (0.5%)JHU: 1,130 (0.4%) 290,361 Trincomalee 15,693 (8.6%) 31,053 (17.0%)1 seat ITAK: 68,955 (37.7%)2 seatsSLMC: 65,187 (35.7%)1 seatJHU: 791 (0.4%)EPDP: 540 (0.3%) 182,794 Kurunegala 340,768 (42.9%)7 seats 412,157 (51.9%)9 seats JHU: 37,459 (4.7%) 793,647 Puttalam 135,152 (46.6%)3 seats 142,784 (49.3%)5 seats JHU: 10,000 (3.4%) 289,763 Anuradhapura 148,612 (39.9%)3 seats 212,943 (57.2%)5 seats JHU: 8,034 (2.2%) 372,125 Polonnaruwa 75,664 (40.8%)2 seats 106,243 (57.3%)3 seats JHU: 2,413 (1.3%) 185,261 Badulla 181,705 (49.1%)5 seats 178,634 (48.3%)3 seats JHU: 6,932 (1.9%) 370,178 Monaragala 71,067 (37.0)2 seats 117,456 (61.1%)3 seats JHU: 2,675 (1.4%) 192,113 Ratnapura 205,490 (41.8%)4 seats 261,450 (53.1%)6 seats JHU: 20,801 (4.2%) 492,003 Kegalle 186,641 (44.3%)4 seats 214,267 (50.9%)5 seats JHU: 18,034 (4.3%) 421,131 Elected members 13th Sri Lankan Parliament Notes References http://www.slelections.gov.lk/composition2004.html Parliamentary General Election 2004 – All Island Result Composition of Parliament Department of Elections, Sri Lanka dead https://archive.today/20120530050156/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/composition2004.html 2012-05-30 http://www.slelections.gov.lk/island2004.html Parliamentary General Election 2004 – All Island Result Department of Elections, Sri Lanka dead https://archive.today/20121219233800/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/island2004.html 2012-12-19 http://www.slelections.gov.lk/District2004/district2004.html https://web.archive.org/web/20090107100926/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/District2004/district2004.html dead 2009-01-07 Parliamentary General Election 2004 – Final District Results Department of Elections, Sri Lanka http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Preference2004GE.pdf General Election 2004 Preferences Department of Elections, Sri Lanka dead https://web.archive.org/web/20100304015514/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Preference2004GE.pdf 2010-03-04 http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/election/general_election2004.jsp 2004 General Election Results LankaNewspapers.com http://www.jpp.co.jp/lanka/gov/govd/govde/gov43e.htm Table 43 Parliamentary General Election (Electoral District) (2004) 10 February 2009 Sri Lanka Statistics http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2295_04.htm Sri Lanka Parliamentary Chamber: Parliament Elections Held in 2004 Inter-Parliamentary Union http://www.manthree.com/elections/results/?id=3 2004 - Parliamentary General Election Manthree.com http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/s/srilanka/srilanka20041.txt DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS OF 2 APRIL 2004 Psephos - Adam Carr's Election Archive http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/s/srilanka/srilanka20042.txt DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS OF 2 APRIL 2004 Psephos - Adam Carr's Election Archive Category:Parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Category:April 2004 in Sri Lanka