1994 Sri Lankan parliamentary election

none 1994 Sri Lankan parliamentary election Sri Lanka parliamentary no 1989 Sri Lankan parliamentary election 1989 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka 2000 Sri Lankan parliamentary election 2000 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka All 225 seats in the Parliament of Sri Lanka 113 seats were needed for a majority 16 August 1994 76.24% Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga As The President of Sri Lanka.jpg Chandrika Kumaratunga 1994 People's Alliance (Sri Lanka) Gampaha District 31.90%, 67 seatsAs the Sri Lanka Freedom Party 105 38 3,887,823 48.94% 17.04pp United National Party UNP D. B. Wijetunga 1993 United National Party n/a 50.92%, 125 seats 94 31 3,498,370 44.04% 6.88pp Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election 1994.png 250px Winners of polling divisions. PA in blue and UNP in green. Prime Minister Prime Minister-designate Ranil Wickremasinghe Chandrika Kumaratunga United National Party People's Alliance (Sri Lanka) Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 16 August 1994. They marked the decisive end of seventeen years of United National Party rule and a revival of Sri Lankan democracy. Background Democracy in Sri Lanka had seemed doomed as the presidencies of J.R. Jayewardene and Ranasinghe Premadasa arbitrarily banned opposition parties, severely muzzled the media, and routinely used death squads, torture, and kidnappings in the two civil conflicts against the LTTE and JVP. The UNP had simply cancelled the 1983 parliamentary elections; its control of the media led it to victory in the 1988 and 1989 elections. The population was increasingly tired of war and repression, worn out with jingoistic Sinhalese nationalism, and wanted a return to freedom, peace, and democracy. Chandrika Kumaratunga, leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, formed a coalition with small leftist parties called the People's Alliance. This was in some ways a revival of her mother's coalition from the 1970s, but this time campaigning for rapprochement with the Tamils rather than their marginalization. Results The PA did not win a majority, but was able to govern with the support of the smaller parties. File:Sri Lanka Parliament 1994.svg District National Total People's AllianceConsisting of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka, the Desha Vimukthi Janatha Party, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya. 3887823 91 14 105 United National PartyIncluding the Ceylon Workers' Congress. 3498370 81 13 94 Sri Lanka Muslim Congress 143307 6 1 7 Tamil United Liberation Front 132461 4 1 5 Sri Lanka Progressive FrontIncluding the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna. 90078 1 0 1 Mahajana Eksath Peramuna 68538 0 0 0 EROS–PLOTE–TELOContested as TELO in Ampara District, Batticaloa District, Colombo District and Trincomalee District; as DPLF in Vanni District and as an independent group in Jaffna District. 38028 3 0 3 Up-Country People's FrontContested as an independent group in Nuwara Eliya District. 27374 1 0 1 Eelam People's Democratic PartyContested as an independent group in Jaffna District. 10744 9 0 9 Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front 9411 0 0 0 Nava Sama Samaja Party 2094 0 0 0 Bahujana Nidahas Peramuna 813 0 0 0 Democratic Workers Congress 589 0 0 0 Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya 267 0 0 0 Independents 33809 0 0 0 400389 196 29 225 10945065 Electoral Commission By province Results of the 1994 Sri Lankan general election by province By electoral district Results of the 1994 Sri Lankan general election by electoral district Elected members 10th Sri Lankan Parliament Legacy The 1994 election did not live up to its great hopes. The PA government was unable to come to an agreement with the LTTE, and ended up prosecuting war just as brutally as its UNP predecessor. The Executive Presidency, which Kumaratunga had promised to abolish, remained as powerful as before. Notes References http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1994%20GENERAL%20ELECTION-SM01.PDF Result of Parliamentary General Election 1994 Department of Elections, Sri Lanka dead https://web.archive.org/web/20101006015411/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1994%20GENERAL%20ELECTION-SM01.PDF 2010-10-06 http://www.jpp.co.jp/lanka/gov/govd/govde/gov40e.htm Table 40 Parliament Election (1994) 10 February 2009 Sri Lanka Statistics 3 October 2010 9 October 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20111009145605/http://www.jpp.co.jp/lanka/gov/govd/govde/gov40e.htm dead http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2295_94.htm Sri Lanka Parliamentary Chamber: Parliament Elections Held in 1994 Inter-Parliamentary Union Category:Parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Sri Lanka