2001 Sri Lankan parliamentary election

none July 2022 July 2022 2001 Sri Lankan parliamentary election Sri Lanka parliamentary 2000 Sri Lankan parliamentary election 2000 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka 2004 Sri Lankan parliamentary election 2004 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka All 225 seats in the Parliament of Sri Lanka 113 seats were needed for a majority 5 December 2001 76.03% Defense.gov News Photo 031103-D-2987S-069 (cropped).jpg Ranil Wickremesinghe 1994 UNF Colombo District 40.22%, 89 seats 109 20 4,086,026 45.62% 5.40% Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga As The President of Sri Lanka.jpg Chandrika Kumaratunga 1994 PA n/a 45.11%, 107 seats 77 30 3,330,815 37.19% 7.92% Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna JVP Somawansa Amarasinghe 1990 Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna n/a 6.00%, 10 seats 16 6 815,353 9.10% 3.10% R. Sampanthan.jpg Rajavarothiam Sampanthan 2001 Tamil National Alliance Trincomalee District Did not exist 15 New party 348,164 3.89% New party Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election 2001.png 250px Winners of polling divisions. UNF in green and PA in blue. Prime Minister Prime Minister-designate Ratnasiri Wickremanayake Ranil Wickremesinghe People's Alliance (Sri Lanka) United National Front (Sri Lanka) Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 5 December 2001, just a little over a year after the previous elections in October 2000. Background The People's Alliance (PA) government faced a blow when most of the SLMC MPs left the coalition. President Chandrika Kumaratunga tried to recruit the JVP to replace it, but this angered several PA MPs, thirteen of which defected to the opposition. A no-confidence motion was prepared; to forestall this, Kumaratunga called the election. More than 1,300 incidents of election violence were reported during the campaign. Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake was nearly killed by a suicide bomber. Overall, 60 people were killed in election-related violence, including 14 on polling day.A vote for peace? https://www.economist.com/asia/2001/12/06/a-vote-for-peace 2025-09-10 The Economist 0013-0613 Parties Democratic People's Liberation Front (DFLP) Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) People's Alliance (Bahejana Nidasa Pakhsaya, BNP), which consisted of: Communist Party of Sri Lanka Democratic United National Front Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Sri Lanka Equal Society Party, LSSP) Sri Lanka Freedom Party (Sri Lanka Nidahas Pakshaya, SLNP) Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya (Sri Lanka People's Party, SLMP) Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (People's Liberation Front, JVP) Sri Lanka Muslim Congress Tamil United Liberation Front (Tamil Vimuktasi Peramuna, TVP) United National Front, which consisted of: United National Party (Eksath Jathika Pakshaya, UNP) Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) Results The ruling People's Alliance lost the election, which saw the United National Front win the legislative power. UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe became the new prime minister. Having the President and Prime Minister belong to two different parties proved to be unstable, and Parliament was dissolved again in 2004, leading to yet another general election. File:Sri Lanka Parliament 2001.svg District National Total 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, the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (except in Ampara, Batticaloa and Jaffna, where it ran alone), the United National Party and the Up-Country People's Front. 4086026 96 13 109 People's AllianceConsisting of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka, the Desha Vimukthi Janatha Party, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, Mahajana Eksath Peramuna, the*National Unity Alliance, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya. 3330815 66 11 77 Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna 815353 13 3 16 Tamil National AllianceContested under the name and symbol of Tamil United Liberation Front. Also consisted of the All Ceylon Tamil Congress, the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front and the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization. 348164 14 1 15 Sri Lanka Muslim Congress 105346 4 1 5 Eelam People's Democratic Party 72783 2 0 2 Sinhala Heritage 50665 0 0 0 New Left Front 45901 0 0 0 Democratic People's Liberation Front 16669 1 0 1 United Socialist Party 9455 0 0 0 National Democratic Party 6952 0 0 0 Democratic Left Front 6214 0 0 0 United Lalith Front 3851 0 0 0 Eksath Sinhala Maha Sabha 2771 0 0 0 Muslim United Liberation Front 2644 0 0 0 Motherland People's Party 1630 0 0 0 Jathika Sangwardhena Peramuna 1624 0 0 0 Bahujana Nidahas Peramuna 1361 0 0 0 Liberal Party 1152 0 0 0 Ruhunu Janatha Party 1089 0 0 0 Democratic United National Front 978 0 0 0 Sri Lanka Progressive Front 854 0 0 0 Sri Lanka Muslim Katchi 802 0 0 0 Sri Lanka National Front 719 0 0 0 Socialist Equality Party 243 0 0 0 Eksath Lanka Podujana Pakshaya 56 0 0 0 Independents 41752 0 0 0 493944 196 29 225 12428762 Election Commission By province Results of the 2001 Sri Lankan general election by province By electoral district Results of the 2001 Sri Lankan general election by electoral district Elected members 12th Sri Lankan Parliament Notes References http://www.slelections.gov.lk/composition2001.html Parliamentary General Election 2001 – All Island Result Composition of Parliament Department of Elections, Sri Lanka dead https://archive.today/20100826002741/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/composition2001.html 2010-08-26 http://www.slelections.gov.lk/island2001.html https://web.archive.org/web/20090107102955/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/island2001.html dead 2009-01-07 Parliamentary General Election 2001 – All Island Result Department of Elections, Sri Lanka http://www.slelections.gov.lk/District2001/district2001.html Parliamentary General Election 2001 – Final District Results Department of Elections, Sri Lanka dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090107094633/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/District2001/district2001.html 2009-01-07 http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/preference2001GE.pdf General Election 2001 Preferences Department of Elections, Sri Lanka dead https://web.archive.org/web/20100304015155/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/preference2001GE.pdf 2010-03-04 http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/election/general_election2001.jsp 2001 General Election Results 12 July 2023 LankaNewspapers.com http://www.jpp.co.jp/lanka/gov/govd/govde/gov42e.htm Table 42 Parliament Election (Party) (2001) 10 February 2009 Sri Lanka Statistics 3 October 2010 9 October 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20111009145644/http://www.jpp.co.jp/lanka/gov/govd/govde/gov42e.htm dead http://www.jpp.co.jp/lanka/gov/govd/govde/gov42ae.htm Table 42a Parliament Election (Electoral District) (2001) 10 February 2009 Sri Lanka Statistics 3 October 2010 9 October 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20111009145756/http://www.jpp.co.jp/lanka/gov/govd/govde/gov42ae.htm dead http://www.jpp.co.jp/lanka/gov/govd/govde/gov42be.htm Table 42b Parliament Election (Elected Members) (2001) 10 February 2009 Sri Lanka Statistics 3 October 2010 12 October 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20101012090402/http://www.jpp.co.jp/lanka/gov/govd/govde/gov42be.htm dead http://www.jpp.co.jp/lanka/gov/govd/govde/gov42ce.htm Table 42c Parliamentary General Election (Electoral District) (2001) 10 February 2009 Sri Lanka Statistics 3 October 2010 9 October 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20111009145837/http://www.jpp.co.jp/lanka/gov/govd/govde/gov42ce.htm dead http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2295_01.htm Sri Lanka Parliamentary Chamber: Parliament Elections Held in 2001 Inter-Parliamentary Union http://www.manthree.com/elections/results/?id=2 2001 - Parliamentary General Election Manthree.com http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/s/srilanka/srilanka2001.txt DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS OF 6 DECEMBER 2001 Psephos - Adam Carr's Election Archive http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/s/srilanka/srilanka20012.txt DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS OF 6 DECEMBER 2001 Psephos - Adam Carr's Election Archive Category:Parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Sri Lanka